I find it misunderstands queries just as much as any search engine . The results of asking a question don’t vary much from a search engine .
Then you aren't making a good job of asking the question, I'm afraid. You don't use AI like a search engine ("imagine relevant keywords that might appear in the answer you want, search them, use own brain to browse likely looking hits from the context surrounding the words, read deeper and see if it's what you want")
The AI has already read the Internet. You ask it in a way that it can clearly reason about what you want and assemble a response based on what it has acquired
I found the AI's do ok if you enter something like
?channel boats
This isn't how they're supposed to be used. Imagine you just walked up to one of your well-read mates, haven't seen them in days, they know nothing of your obsession with migrants or whatever, and you just looked them in the face and said:
"Channel boats"
"Huh?"
"Channel boats"
"What are you talking about?"
"Channel boats"
"Add words"
Channel boats is how you'd talk to a search engine. To an AI your query would be more like:
"can you create a summary of small boat crossing numbers over time and cross reference it with changes in UK policy regards illegal migration? I want to know if there have been any reasonable policy changes that have had an noticeable effect, positive or negative, on the numbers attributed to small boat arrivals"
Yes, you have to put more effort in, but it's a very small amount of effort compared to what you will get, when you consider what you'd have to do to produce the same output yourself
More so my problem. How getting Ai and Google to understand me.
Its finding the right words or sentence of words to get right answer.
When pondering how to ask an AI something, ask it like you would a forum question, not a 3 keyword google search for "Ryanair bag size"
Most AI will reveal some of their reasoning about what you're asking so you can check it's understood you. If it didn't, then just as you would with a person, find another way of explaining your query
This is how people talk to Google, not how they talk to people:
You talk to AI like you talk to people
Naw, it's amazing. Just imagine if people learned from their mistakes and from the mistakes and experiences of others. How fast would we evolve, generation upon generation
But no, people always have to learn from their own mistakes, and repeat the same failings as all the generations before. Progress is slow
with all these flexible pipe conections all these flexible pan connectors and waste fittings.
But they're good enough; they do the job for long enough. They don't need to be the David beckham/albert Einstein of plumbing fittings, assembled by the David beckham/albert Einstein of plumbers
