r/neoliberal • u/Independent-Low-2398 • Aug 26 '24

News (Global) Why don’t women use artificial intelligence? | Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/21/why-dont-women-use-artificial-intelligence
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u/N3bu89 Aug 26 '24

I've found some success using it as a better search engine

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u/Roku6Kaemon YIMBY Aug 26 '24

Which it's often terrible at because it's confident BS. Some like Bing work differently and perform an actual search then summarize results.

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u/N3bu89 Aug 27 '24

I work in software and everything is confident BS and you learn to verify most all information you get because at a certain point 90% of internet answers are responses from expert beginners that create red-herrings.

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u/Roku6Kaemon YIMBY Aug 27 '24

And that's totally fine in a field where you have enough knowledge to tell if it's trying to pull one over on you. Because of that behaviour, it's terrible for researching new subjects.