Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by thm on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:40AM (#49892201)

Ask Jeeves - Only took us 30 years to come full circle.

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Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by rsingel on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:36AM (#49895160)

Too true. I worked there.

Ask Jeeves hired hundreds of cheap liberal arts majors to classify data, some users thought Jeeves was real, the stock spiked when big companies hired Jeeves to automate support thinking it was a silver bullet, and the whole thing collapsed when a better model came along, and it degenerated into ripping off rubes with bottom of the barrel ads.

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Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by kridsdale1 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:04PM (#49895652)

Sounds like the story of OpenAI in 6 years

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Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by NetOpWibby on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:56AM (#49895509)

Damn, what a way to go.

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Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by kkukshtel on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:04PM (#49895655)

You found the joke!

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Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by victordmor on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:08AM (#49893592)

I met one of the founders once in Oakland. Amazing fella.

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Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by davedigerati on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:53AM (#49894379)

lol was thinking the exact same, named some ML projects Jeeves along the way...

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Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by tmnstr85 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:49AM (#49892311)

this was the comment i came here for

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Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by onaclov2000 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:11AM (#49892651)

My bots are all named Jeeves lol. I have a CLI tool I use that connects up to a LLM I made and I call it Jeeves too ...so funny. I really didn't use Jeeves all that much I tended to use...I think it was called Web crawler pre-google era

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Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models by aftbit on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:46AM (#49894263)

I used Altavista

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