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Eh. It's useful for finding what I want to know. The result to a query which goes like "Based on this paragraph from some documentation written in 2005 (link) the answer is " is a whole lot more useful than "Here is a list of thousands and thousands of irrelevant and incoherently sorted results, of which one is probably what you were looking for. Good luck." which was, unfortunately, the state of the art up to this point.
When I try that, I just get confidently incorrect answers.
my dad said the same about excel. it just gives him incorrect results compared to his handwritten sheet. now let's get you to bed grandpa.
The idea that all new technologies are going to be successful just because some were in the past is just about the most ridiculous take in this entire thread.
you could pay a mathematician instead of cpu slob. just think of the people who lost their jobs because of excel.
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