TiVo had such an excellent UI. DVRs became common, but all the ones I saw had such inferior interfaces. Such a shame.
I bought and hacked a TiVo unit and used it for years in a place where the service wasn’t available. I miss that thing.
The problem really isn’t the exact percentage, it’s the way it behaves.
It’s trained to never say no. It’s trained to never be unsure. In many cases an answer of “You can’t do that” or “I don’t know how to do that” would be extremely useful. But, instead, it’s like an improv performer always saying “yes, and” then maybe just inventing some bullshit.
I don’t know about you guys, but I frequently end up going down rabbit holes where there are literally zero google results matching what I need. What I’m looking for is so specialized that nobody has taken the time to write up an indexable web page on how to do it. And, that’s fine. So, I have to take a step back and figure it out for myself. No big deal. But, Google’s “helpful” AI will helpfully generate some completely believable bullshit. It’s able to take what I’m searching for and match it to something similar and do some search-and-replace function to make it seem like it would work for me.
I’m knowledgeable enough to know that I can just ignore that AI-generated bullshit, but I’m sure there are a lot of other more gullible optimistic people who will take that AI garbage at face value and waste all kinds of time trying to get it working.
To me, the best way to explain LLMs is to say that they’re these absolutely amazing devices that can be used to generate movie props. You’re directing a movie and you want the hero to pull up a legal document submitted to a US federal court? It can generate one in seconds that would take your writers hours. It’s so realistic that you could even have your actors look at it and read from it and it will come across as authentic. It can generate extremely realistic code if you want a hacking scene. It can generate something that looks like a lost Shakespeare play, or an intercept from an alien broadcast, or medical charts that look like exactly what you’d see in a hospital.
But, just like you’d never take a movie prop and try to use it in real life, you should never actually take LLM output at face value. And that’s hard, because it’s so convincing.
The picture suggests that there was an ad that suggested a stop at the sponsored gas station, if the user clicked on the suggestion / ad, then the route would be modified.
IMO that’s massively different than the detour being added by default. If they actually did / were doing that, it would be a huge scandal, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. Instead, it’s just an intrusive, annoying ad.
Also because section 1201 of the DMCA means that otherwise useful things become e-waste.