On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM Jason McKesson wrote:
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> "Ask a chatbot" is not a reliable method for acquiring accurate information.


I wouldn't change the height of the control rods in my nuclear reactor
based on advice given by an AI. You need a human (or a group of
humans) to double-check what comes out of an AI.

AI is fine for some uses though, like perusing a catalogue of three
thousand papers written about proposals to change to C++ programming
language. Basically I just want the AI to 'crawl' the papers so that I
can ask simple questions like, "Has anyone ever written a paper to
allow the calling of non-const methods on a const object if we're
dealing with an Rvalue?".

The AI would then direct me to papers that I myself can take a look at it.

The difference between what I'm suggesting, and say, ChatGPT or
CoPilot, is that the AI on our dedicated website will be constantly
updated with new papers and new posts.