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I remember when Google embedding unit conversions in search was a cute little convenience. And, uh, actually useful and accurate. This is just so embarrassing for a once-great tool.
@luis_in_brief they asked their "AI" if there was more bugs in the new version and it said no. So they shipped.
@hub
#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
A 7:40 pace means running one mile in 7 minutes and 40 seconds. Here are some breakdowns for different distances at this pace:
5K (3.1 miles): ~23:49
10K (6.2 miles): ~47:38
Half Marathon (13.1 miles): ~1:40:12
Marathon (26.2 miles): ~3:20:24
@luis_in_brief somebody was promoted for shipping this.
@hub @luis_in_brief that’s what irks me the most
@luis_in_brief
You want Wolfram Alpha
@luis_in_brief this error is because in thomas running’s time miles and kilometers were the same distance and only slowly diverged afterwards (due to tectonic drift of course)
@luis_in_brief and it is often even worse than it looks - not only is the "AI" answer frequently drastically wrong (as it is in this case) - not uncommonly showing itself to be wrong within its own summary - but Google's short previews of search results are now also frequently incorrect - I've seen a lot of examples of the preview showing content NOT on the page linked (or contradicted by that page) so you can't even trust the links they return these days - making their search tool actively bad
@luis_in_brief google unit conversions were famously a wrapper around gnu units, which you can still use! https://www.gnu.org/software/units/
@bob yes, I almost tagged @mako in this because of https://revealingerrors.com/google_miscalculator
@luis_in_brief Sheesh.
(KDE has real unit conversions in the search bar! but I doubt it knows "[time] pace per [distance]".)
@luis_in_brief Even my 77 yo mother scrolls straight past the AI overview. This is after it told her that she could could the Christmas turkey faster if she doubled the temperature of the oven.
I was paying PREMIUM for the Google/Bard/Stinking Pile of Innards that Google #AI is.
To call it #AI Slop would be an insult to the genuine AI Slop...
...Google AI is to AI Slop what plastic food mockups are to real food...in a recursive loop of artificial sloppiness.
It looks like they tried to retain their original foundation model rather than flushing it down the toilet.
@luis_in_brief JFC it's a parody of itself.
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3946] @luis_in_brief the pace for miles is some weird time unit only Americans know ...
@luis_in_brief Yep - the simple answers to questions used to be great if you needed some simple result (like in this case). And yes, it used to be accurate and so fantastic.
Now - not so. it means you have to then find something that will give you the correct answer.
@luis_in_brief We need to relearn/reaccustom ourselves to use other online tools. In the end, that's a good thing, we are breaking Google's monopoly ourselves.
For unit conversions, Wolfram Alpha often works well.
Using DuckDuckGo as your browser's default search engine, you can use "!wolfram" and type stuff like "6 km/h in miles/second !wolfram"
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=7min40%2Fkm+as+minutes+per+mile
@hisham_hm oh, interesting re DDG - I do actually use that as my default in most places; didn’t know it had a Wolfram bridge.
Seems another query method can deliver a correct answer.
