Announcing OverflowAI
stackoverflow.blog
Let’s highlight the new features and products we announced today from the stage of WeAreDevelopers.
  • Dankry@lemmy.worldEnglish
    96·
    2 years ago

    User: OverflowAI how do I tie my shoes?
    OverflowAI: That’s a dumb question. Just wear velcro shoes.
    User: But the thing is I really need to know how to tie my shoe laces.

    Stack Overflow Mods: [This post has been answered and is now closed.]

  • joelthelion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    2 years ago

    As an AI model, I cannot answer duplicate questions. Please check this completely unrelated question instead.

  • krayj@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 years ago

    If it’s trained on previous community interaction, it’s just going to automatically tell people (in the rudest way possible) their question is a duplicate and kill the thread for each and every new post.

  • Goodie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Oh great. Another place on the web where my usage of it will simply feed some new language model.

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    The generally unhelpful attitude of the community aside, I don’t think these one-of-a-kind problems lend themselves to AI very well.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      What makes you think that? Just yesterday I asked “how can I make an excel file in X language?”

      GPT-4 suggested two libraries, one popular but not maintained, the other new(ish) and maintained. It told me how to install the latter and provided sample code for a simple hello world spreadsheet.

      I was then able to ask for a few tweaks, like sending output to stdout instead of to a file on disk, and using 4,2 cell coordinates instead of D2 coordinates. It was able to tell me how to tell Excel that “4 Feb 2042” is a date value, not a string value, make the heading columns bold, make the column widths automatically calculated based on the content, etc etc.

      The whole think was so one-of-a-kind I doubt you could find questions to all those answers (especially with a specific library) on the regular Stack Overflow and even if they are there it’d be a dozen separate questions that I’d need to piece together.

  • lascapi@jlai.luEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    That’s can be nice !

    Until now we’ve relied on lexical search, trying to match users with questions and answers based on the keywords they supplied. But as I announced today, we’ll be adding semantic search in a private Alpha, built on top of a vector database, so that the responses generated from a search query can more intelligently align with the topics the user is researching.

    Sounds like we don’t need to know the right word to discover the good response. 👏