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TheBrain releases its first beta of TheBrain 14
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Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 21, 2023 at 04:24 PM
TheBrain has release the first beta (better to call it “pre-alpha” IMO) of TheBrain 14.
https://thebrain.com/products/thebrain/thebrain14
It’s very very buggy. The company has gone all-in on the OpenAI version of “AI”, betting their product will succeed with a strategy that assumes everyone wants to use “AI” to generate documents and answer questions.
I wonder if in a few short years we’ll all look back at developer integrations with “AI” and say “wow, wonderful”, or “wow, what a mistake”.
Posted by Lucas
Sep 21, 2023 at 05:40 PM
As an aside, to your point about AI: While I certainly recognize the strenghts of the current crop of AI tech, it can also be surprisingly poor. Google Bard has now launched Gmail integration, so yesterday I asked Google Bard some very basic questions about emails in my inbox. Like so much else with LLMs, the responses were in the right direction but woefully flawed. A clear step down from simply searching directly within Gmail. LLMs are extremely powerful, but they are constructed in such a way that accuracy is unpredictable, which limits their utility for now when it comes to incorportating them into existing software.
Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 21, 2023 at 06:03 PM
Yesterday I asked Bard for a photo of upper 5th Avenue (NY) as it was in 1920. It replied “Here’s a photo of upper 5th Avenue in 1920”. It was a photo of Pasadena from this summer.
Google Lens is smarter than Bard.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Sep 21, 2023 at 10:23 PM
The AI is functional in the current web version of TheBrain, and it is impressive. I haven’t had a need to use it much, but I have experimented with it. Once they’ve integrated the tech into the desktop versions, I do expect to use it more often.
Steve
Posted by exatty95
Sep 21, 2023 at 11:56 PM
I have used The Brain on and off for years, and think it’s a very impressive program. Unfortunately, the web version currently does not display the backlinks and mentions for an item. They are visible on the desktop versions, and for me an essential feature. For those of us who need the web version because we can’t install the desktop program on our work computers, this can be a significant shortcoming.