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Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears by Dennip on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:59PM (#50306754)
Disagree. In my experience particularly over the last few weeks, Gemini has gotten very good at understanding what i'm asking for and giving a relevant response that 9 times out of 10 just answers my question without me having to go further into the relevant wiki link etc.
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Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears by method_capital on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:23PM (#50307164)
Try asking it about a sporting event or score. It literally just makes shit up. I asked it Tuesday if there was a world series game; it told me with complete confidence there wasn't and that Milwaukee was leading the series 2-1 after losing the night before.
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Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears by AnimalMuppet on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:11PM (#50307919)
A bit off-topic, but: How often do they re-train models on current events? Every month? Every day? Every hour?

Given how AIs work, if they weren't trained with last night's sports news, you can't get an accurate answer this morning. All you can get is a hallucination.

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Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears by method_capital on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:13PM (#50307958)
It told me it was searching the web with it's reply lol.
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Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears by WarmWash on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:15PM (#50308848)
When that happens burn the chat and make another one.
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Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears by taeric on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:09PM (#50306920)
Agreed. I have no doubt I could throw curveballs at it, but it has been getting things mostly correct for a while. And the fact that I can follow up with a direct challenge is kind of nice.
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