AI search is a joke – Exhibit 3

1Cor10 31

thank you @Graham Criddle. i don't think such subtle differences should make a difference in the output. In this case, I knew it was in my library thanks to Perplexity. What if I didn't know, which is why I need Logos, right? Then I would have used my search string (which was intuitive to me) and concluded that I didn't have that sermon in my library. So the idea that AI helps discover more stuff in my library is baloney . [@DAL - i'm just helping you with enahced vocab for your sermons!]

MJ. Smith

@1Cor10 31

 So the idea that AI helps discover more stuff in my library is baloney .

I think you've confused my uncle's baloney with my great-uncle's head cheese. 😀

The use I have for AI that it has been performing very well on is to find the Evangelical Logos terms when I know the Catholic/Orthodox Verbum terms i.e. AI does a good job of translating across theological vocabularies.

Okay, my uncle didn't make baloney, but my great-uncle made head cheese and pickled trotters.

Francis

I agree that smart search is a very useful addition to Logos. It has limitations and is not perfect, but I find it the easiest way to find an information quickly. Typing the question, seeing the synopsis and navigating to the source to check the information is way faster than the old way: typing keywords, browse through results to try to sift out irrelevant results, then check the others one by one to see if they actually have what I am looking for. Ironically, synopsis usually finds more "precisely" what I am looking for that way than the former approach.

I use smart search this way everyday. This is a controlled use of AI that does not require it to be exhaustive (e.g., not miss something I have in the library) or nor need to be able to prioritize results correctly. I have no use for the other AI implementations in Logos so far and actually find them dangerous, but that's off-track.

ASUNDER

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1358578#Comment_1358578

I was also looking for a Spurgeon quote when I started getting upset at how the search works.
Using Google to find it now, and it seems this quote doesn't exist. 😩

Just like in that Star Wars movie, the librarian told the jedi, "if it's not in our library it doesn't exist." As a parallel doctrine, people who find or don't find things with Google think that's an infallible thing. And will reference wikipedia for any knowledge, as if that's scripture.
But in reality what he was looking for did exist. The enemy had modified the library to hide it from him. This is the ministry of Google; to inform with bias.

The primary goal is to not have to use Google to find any Christian knowledge. To have the secular search engines be there for that use and Logos be our Christian search engine.

Justin Walker

Has anyone done a webinar on the best practices for searches since the AI has been implemented? Seems like a little education would go a long way in knowing when to use precise vs smart. I've learned a lot just reading through this post but not everyone gets on here.