Comment by evnix
19 hours ago
Feels exactly the way my 2 year old behaves.
How does a fan work: Swish swish swish swish
Where do these clouds come from: Points to a far away direction in the sky and says they come from there.
Who does all these roads, trees and environment belong to? It all belongs to me. Obviously.
They have an answer ready for every question you throw at them and they will answer it with absolute certainty. I will have to wait and see at what age does the concept of "I don't know" develop.
The difference between your two year old is that an LLM gives useful information.
Yesterday I decarboxylated some weed buds in preparation of making a cannabis tincture using the QWET method. Curious how Claude would respond, I asked how to do it.
It walked me through the process and gave accurate, nuanced answers.
Let me know what your 2 year old thinks I should do.
Gemini estimated that male cannabis plant leaves I decarboxylated will have negligible thc content and give me mild relaxation at best, the real effect was it was the highest I've ever been.
Gemini sucks though. Are you using the paid version? The free one that has basically replaced the regular search, is totally useless because of how shallow it searches.
ChatGPT, which is usually quite reliable, refuses to answer me because law.
In the end, an extraction should work any plant material depending on potency, skill and available equipment.
After the extraction you can evaporate the ethanol(carefully since it’s highly flammable) and increase potency.
A mix of own research(basically emulating others) combined with strong models we can do a lot more than we can do ourselves.
To be fair, I have yet to lead a conversation with Gemini that doesn't just consist of me having to check its responses and point out that they're objectively incorrect only for it to "apologize" and then give me the next wrong answer, while always making sure to end with a new conversation teaser.
Granted, I've only been using the free version but I've been getting significantly more mileage out of those from ChatGPT and Claude. I guess it might be a feature that Gemini is more often obviously wrong from the start (e.g. by giving sources that don't support its claims whatsoever) but considering this is the AI from the company that had become synonymous with the concept of trying to find information on the Internet, that's pretty damn pathetic.
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Claude and ChatGPT have between them identified one mystery plant in my garden confidently as about a dozen different things.
Even though they will get chemistry right more often than me, I still wouldn't want to ingest the result of it walking me through that on a drug, psychoactive or otherwise.
Any given answer might be right, but I'm not a trained chemist and don't know how to safely test things.
That is in the training data. Confidently and correctly answering in-distribution questions (possiibly with a tool call) is expected by now.
Aren't you missing OP's point entirely? Which is: If the LLM didn't have useful information it would still give you an answer... Helpful or not.
Not really, since any LLM will answer all those questions competently. It's a known fact that LLMs sometimes are wrong and hallucinates an answer, but this is exceedingly rare. Having access to a decent LLM is like having an expert with me. Are they always right? No, but the analogy with a two year old simply doesn't hold up.
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