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How does this help solve the issue mentioned by a few people of pulling in results from Ubuntu Forums?

By combining/adding the suggestion made by @oldfred for site:site plus keyword searches into this plugin?

Or could Google search results be added to the Discourse search function as a plugin/enhancement without the need for an AI-based addition?

From some research I did, not sure there is any easy or practical route to achieve this without a fairly significant amount of work being done behind the scenes.

Is it really worth it in either the short or long term since, over time, the posts and keywords here will build up just as they did on UF.

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site:site plus keyword
good if you know what exact keywords to search for
but only works with exact matches
there is no fuzzy (nearest context) searching as in context vectors.

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AI really is not a reliable source if relied on to heavily it can be quite incorrect concerning the information it presents.

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I was thinking of a custom LLM taught from the Ubuntu corpora (posts, blogs, manuals) and no other sources.

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@wxl quote"You should have said “a plugin.”endquote"

Hey mate, I’m 74 years old, just getting my head around how to interact with AI. Cut me some slack!

Tony

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@vidtek99 
 I am in the Octogenarian Club. Add a decade plus one year to your age.
Now regarding learning the AI ropes this takes me back to very early “expert systems”. But natural language processing has taken over.
I admit topping up my knowledge by following TuringPost and other curated sources.
One key to interacting with the bevy of AI tools around is learning how to pose sensible queries or so named “prompts”. I suggest that you study “prompt engineering”. But even in this forum, daft questions raise daft replies. So my suggestion is learn how to talk with these new robots 
 in one forum in jest I referred to the Albert query field as reminding me of Robot Gort in the 1951 sci-fi film. But today I envisage using Albert as my front end to “prompt” various LLM’s. That is, draw from a desktop library of retained snippets or prompts to throw at your chosen LLM. I rather like Phind.com but there are others. So adopt a layered approach in talking with these new robots. And keep bookmarks of text prompts (which can contain URL’s ) to force the robot to read specific sources.

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I’m not sure the issue has anything to do with an AI. You were asked a question that had three possible answers:

  1. No, I don’t want help.
  2. Yes, I want help with a theme.
  3. Yes, I want help with a plugin.

You just said “yes.” See the problem? It would also be a problem with humans, too.

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