Comment by jiggawatts
6 days ago
You can be fuzzier than a soft fluff of cotton wool. I’ve had incredible success trying to find the name of an old TV show or specific episode using AIs. The hit rate is surprisingly good even when using the vaguest inputs.
“You know, that show in the 80s or 90s… maybe 2000s with the people that… did things and maybe didn’t do things.”
“You might be thinking of episode 11 of season 4 of such and such snow where a key plot element was both doing and not doing things on the penalty of death”
See I try that sort of thing, like asking Gemini about a science fiction book I read in 5th grade that (IIRC) involved people living underground near/under a volcano, and food in pill form, and it immediately hallucinates a non-existent book by John Christopher named "The City Under the Volcano"
I know at least two books partly matching that description: "Surréal 3000" by Suzanne Martel and "Le silence de la cité" by Élisabeth Vonarburg.
I think Surréal 3000 is the one.
Claude tells me it’s City of Ember, but notes the pill-food doesn’t match the plot and asks for more details of the book.
Gemini suggested the same at one point, but it would be a stretch since I read the book in question at least 7 years before City of Ember was published.
Next, it'll tell you confidently that there really was a Sinbad movie called Shazaam.
Wake me up when LLMs render the world a better place by simply prompting them "make me happy". Now that's gonna be a true win of fuzzy inputs!