User: OverflowAI how do I tie my shoes?
OverflowAI: That's a dumb question. Just wear velcro shoes.
User: But the thing is I really need to know how to tie my shoe laces.
Stack Overflow Mods: [This post has been answered and is now closed.]
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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OverflowAI: duplicate of “how to tie-dye a shirt”
As an AI model, I cannot answer duplicate questions. Please check this completely unrelated question instead.
As a language model, did you even RTFM?
Alternatively: as a language model, found the issue!
Great, now an AI is gonna tell me my questions are dumb
Easy, just use AI to word it for you
Will the ai be as cowardly as the people who vote to close without comment?
Better than the ones with 300k reputation who comment to tell you why your question is shit and encourage everyone to close while making up or grossly misinterpreting the rules.
Then they find you a few weeks later and do it again.
If it's trained on previous community interaction, it's just going to automatically tell people (in the rudest way possible) their question is a duplicate and kill the thread for each and every new post.
Oh great. Another place on the web where my usage of it will simply feed some new language model.
So they banned chatGPT answers because they didn’t want competition!
The generally unhelpful attitude of the community aside, I don't think these one-of-a-kind problems lend themselves to AI very well.
That's can be nice !
Until now we’ve relied on lexical search, trying to match users with questions and answers based on the keywords they supplied. But as I announced today, we’ll be adding semantic search in a private Alpha, built on top of a vector database, so that the responses generated from a search query can more intelligently align with the topics the user is researching.
Sounds like we don't need to know the right word to discover the good response. 👏
Just yesterday the news was that their site traffic plummeted. The solution? Throw AI at it
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