Comment by ToucanLoucan
4 days ago
> Couldn't AI like be their custom inventory software?
Absolutely not. It's inherently a software with a non-zero amount of probability in every operation. You'd have a similar experience asking an intern to remember your inventory.
Like I enjoy Copilot as a research tool right but at the same time, ANYTHING that involves delving into our chat history is often wrong. I own three vehicles, for example, and it cannot for it's very life remember the year, make and model of them. Like they're there, but they're constantly getting switched around in the buffer. And once I started positing questions about friend's vehicles that only got worse.
But you should be able to say "remember this well" and AI would know it needs a reliable database instead of relying on its LLM cache or whatever. Could it not just spin up Postgres in some Codex Cloud like a human developer would? Not today but in a few years?
Why do I need to tell an AI to remember things?! How does AI consistently feel less intelligent than regular old boring software?!
Because you're using it wrong.
Really. Tool use is a big deal for humans, and it's just as big a deal for machines.
10 replies →
It can do that today. I am doing that today.