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Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that!
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Literally never had this happen. Every time I have caved after exhausting all other options the LLM has just made it worse. I never go back anymore.
They're by no means the end-all solution. And they usually aren't my first choice.
But when I'm out of ideas prompting gemini with a couple sentences hyper-specifically describing a problem, has often given me something actionable. I've had almost no success with asking it for specific instructions without specific details about what I'm doing. That's when it just makes shit up.
But a recent example. I was trying to re-install windows on a lenovo ARM laptop. Lenovos own docs were generic for all their laptops, and intended for x86. You could not use just any windows iso. While I was able to figure out how to create the recovery image media for the specific device at hand, there were no instructions on how to actually use it, and entering the BIOS didn't have any relevant entries.
Writing half a dozen sentences describing this into Gemini, instantly informed me that there is a tiny pin-hole button on the laptop that boots into a special separate menu that isn't in the bios. A lo, that was it.
Then again, if normal search still worked like it did a decade ago, and didn't give me a shitload of irrelevant crap, I wouldn't have needed an LLM to "think" it's way to this factoid. I could have found it myself.
I do use LLMs if I forget to plan one of my tabletop sessions. I will fully admit they are great at that. Love 'em for making encounters. But thats fundamentally different than real world searches or knowledge. I'm asking it to make stuff up for me, it koves to hallucinate.
Happened to me yesterday. I have an old 4K TV, every component I used to connect to it had HDMI 2.0+ capabilities. Neither laptop nor Steam Deck would output 4K60, only 4K30. Tried getting another cable and a hub, same result. And I know that my Chromecast outputs 4K60 to this TV, so I was extra confused. In my desperation, asked GPT-5 what was I missing, and it plainly told me that those old Samsung TVs turn off HDMI 2.0 support unless you explicitly turn it on in TV settings under "UHD Color". Apparently Chromecast was doing chroma subsampling, but computers refused and wanted full HDMI 2.0 bandwidth...
That's rather cool, glad to hear it worked. My experience with it is often:
Where can I find this setting to change for *this thing*? "Gladly! I know how frustrating this process scan be! First, open the settings page, find the page that says "*\thing setting* and change it there" There is no page like that " You're absolutely right!"
True, that totally happens to me all the time, too. For example, yesterday it was repeatedly insisting that there's a certain checkbox in qbittorrent settings, which wasn't there. I gave it the screenshot of the setting page and it "realized" it's named differently. So in the end, it helped me with something that I couldn't google properly. It's a supplementary tool for me.
Context is highly important in this scenario. Asking it how many people live in [insert country and then province/state], and it'll be accurate a high percentage of the time. As compared to asking it, [insert historical geo-political question], and it won't be able to.
Also, I have found it can depend on which LLM you ask said question to. I have found Perplexity to be my go to LLM of choice, as it acts like an LLM 'server' in selecting the best LLM for the task at hand. Here's Perplexity's Wikipedia page if you want to learn more.
I was creating some sort of nutrition calculator thingy, and the AI basically taught me how to use Excel.