My son Riley has been a little slow to the AI game.
Today he sent me this:
“Spent a silly amount of time trying to get a Windows-only game to work on Mac.
Finally said screw it, asked Gemini how to do it. 10 minutes later, it works.
Minor issue: mouse input was too slow even on max settings. Googled it. Searched Reddit. No one had ever asked about this.
Asked Gemini.
It knew exactly what was happening, why a Logitech mouse would have that problem, and the exact place in the files to find a specific folder with garbled code data in it, search for a value, and change a 1.5 to a 1.
Like magic, works perfectly.
Unreal. How does it know stuff if even I can't find it anywhere on Google?
Useful for something at least. 😁”
That last line made me laugh.
But his question is a good one.
How does it know something if you can't find the answer anywhere?
Because AI isn't just search.
Sometimes it has enough pieces of the puzzle to reason toward an answer that nobody has ever bothered to write down.
And sometimes that answer is buried in some obscure folder full of gobbledygook where changing a 1.5 to a 1 somehow fixes your mouse.
Ten minutes.
Problem solved.
Useful for something, at least. 😁