I believe one of the biggest problems is the lack of context in the reply, coupled with it being stated as definitive.
Here's a hokey example, but: if you for some reason wanted to know when the number 7 was created, and asked AI, it might well reply regarding the 1995 movie. For a normal search result, you'd see that it was talking about a movie and say "Yeah, not what I meant". If an AI response said "Seven was created in 1995", hey, sounds good to me! One can easily imagine more subtle examples, not to mention out and out hallucinations. (The above hokey example came about because my sister wrote, "I'm bad at hyphenation, and asked ChatGPT how to hyphenate 'seven'; its response was that 'Seven is a one-syllable word and thus cannot be hyphenated'". Um, sure. Maybe it was working in French [sept]?) So at this point, when I get an AI answer that sounds plausible, I then use THAT as input for a normal search, to find (or not) supporting data. Is this better? Sometimes. But since many people just take it as gospel, damage results. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Matt Hogstrom Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 10:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: AI makes stuff up Context is king. Whenever I search for content related to z I prefix it like “z/os rmm rustable” and that tends to eliminate random stuff. AI is nothing more than a statistical guess based on internet data … not surprising it doesn’t so well with z/OS content as z/OS is niche as far as the internet is concerned. > On Jan 22, 2025, at 10:42 AM, rpinion865 > <0000042a019916dd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I wonder if Google and other internet search engines use "AI"? Why do I ask? > I just tried to find some information about DF/RMM's RDSTABLE lookup logic. > First, I used RMM RDSTABLE, I got a bunch hits. But nothing related to IBM's > RMM. I tried DFRMM and RDSTABLE. At least this time, I got some hits > related to DFRMM, but nothing that was specific to the RDSTABLE. I tried > putting RDSTABLE in quotes(is that not supposed to force that word to be use > in the search). At least for me, I got nothing usable. > > > > "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." > > Bugs Bunny > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
