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AI isn't necessary for that kind of search, however. A simple vector database lookup would do, and rather than passing the output through an unreliable narration layer, it would simply return the source texts directly.
Semantic search is a great technology, but it is separate from and independent of 'AI'.
Okay so is that available to me
Edit: I told the robot to just return values and sources it doesn't write me novels
my takeaway from this is that the AI is bypassing the "gatekeeping basic access to information resources by charging people subscriptions" business...
...which is, I note, again: something nobody should be doing in the first place.
AND FURTHERMORE, is literally what the business model of these AI firms will be if they actually made people pay at least as much for the tokens as they are spending in order to process those tokens.
because, as it turns out, running these gorillion-parameter LLMs actually costs money in terms of energy and cooling and the upkeep cost of the facilities these machines are running in, and it costs A SHIT TON MORE THAN WE HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE - that's why AI companies are losing money so fast.
Didn't we all SEE what happened when these companies actually start BILLING for token usage?
Micro$lop has been finding out (having FUCKED AROUND) that their engineers are each racking up - this is the cost PER ENGINEER - of THOUSANDS of dollars extra every single month on Claude tokens. Spending as much as giving every last one of their engineers a $24,000 raise except with way less productivity resulting.
A user can accidentally burn through half their monthly 'token budget' allotted by their subscription in a DAY even without 'heavy usage' because IT TURNS OUT WE DON'T EVEN GET TO CONTROL HOW MANY TOKENS IT USES WHEN WE SUBMIT A QUERY! it can get stuck in a logic loop and churn through millions of them on the SIMPLEST queries.
god DAMMIT, just because they aren't BILLING someone yet doesn't mean there isn't a COST, and people are thinking it's affordable as a result WHEN IT REALLY FUCKIN AINT