For most use cases, web search engines are fine. But I am wondering if there are alternative ways to finding information. There is also the enshittification of google and tbh most(free) search engines just give google search result

Obviously, the straight is just asking other people, can be in person or online, in general forums or specialised communities

Libraries are good source but for those that don’t have access to physical libraries, there free online public libraries(I will post the links for those that I found below)

Books in general, a lot of them have reference to outside materials.

So, I been experimenting with an AI chat bot(Le chat), partially as life coach of sorts and partially as a fine tuned web search engine. To cut to the chase, its bad. I when its not just listing google top results it list tools that long gone or just makes shit up. I was hoping it to be fine tuned search engine, cuz the google works, if what you want is not the top 10 websites, your on your own.

So yeah, that all I can think. Those are all the routes I can think of for finding information and probably all there is but maybe I miss another route.

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Not at this point, no. Not unless you know how to setup/manage docker images and have a GPU with at least 16GB of VRAM.

    Also, if you’re not using Linux forget it. All the AI stuff anyone would want to run is a HUGE pain in the ass to run on Windows. The folks developing these models and the tools to use them are all running Linux. Both on their servers and on their desktops and it’s obvious once you start reading the README.md for most of these projects.

    Some will have instructions for Windows but they’ll either be absolutely enormous or they’ll hand wave away the actual complexity, “These instructions assume you know the basics of advanced rocket science and quantum mechanics.”