Announcing OverflowAI
stackoverflow.blog
Let’s highlight the new features and products we announced today from the stage of WeAreDevelopers.
  • Dankry@lemmy.worldEnglish
    134·
    1 year 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
    116·
    1 year ago

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

  • krayj@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    1 year 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.

    • Bipta@kbin.social
      15·
      1 year ago

      Better than the ones with 300k reputation who comment to tell you why your question is shit and encourage everyone to close while making up or grossly misinterpreting the rules.

      Then they find you a few weeks later and do it again.

  • Goodie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

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

  • lascapi@jlai.luEnglish
    9·
    1 year 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. 👏

  • wfm@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    Just yesterday the news was that their site traffic plummeted. The solution? Throw AI at it

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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.