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  • It gives you a good starting point. If its something simple, like “What are the best night clubs in my area”, then it is useful. It may not be 100% accurate in that case, but you were going to go through them 1 by 1 anyway, and it can give you a quick summary of what they are, so you can decide if you want to look into them more. Or you can further narrow down your results in a way that a simple google search couldn’t. I’m not saying its the be all end all, but this whole “AI is totally useless” thing is just ridiculous.






  • I’m not saying that AI is not without many serious flaws, but your simplification is highly inaccurate. If AI was based on getting “lucky” it would not be a marketable product, but rather just a parlor trick. What it is actually is a computer that can search the web much faster than you could, and provides results based on that search. It is not 100% accurate, but using a direct web search or more advanced model is pretty damn close for most purposes (especially something simple like the case in the article). It’s like calling someone who uses a calculator lazy. Ridiculous thing to say.






  • What apps does Mint have installed by default? Because I’m trying to minimize the things I need to tinker with up front to have a good experience. I am somewhat technically savvy, but this is my first linux install, so I’d like it to go smoothly and hit the ground running. What is the benefit of mint over this OS?