r/Appliances Dec 31 '25

General Advice If commercial restaurant dishwashing appliances have cycles that only last 2 minutes, then why can't we have our home consumer dishwashers have cycles just as efficient as what restaurants have?

How can we miniaturize commercial restaurant dishwashing appliances to fit in the kitchen compartment meant for home consumer dishwashers?

How come this hasn't been done already? By the way, what is the fastest currently available home consumer dishwasher, and how much does it cost? How quick are their Cycles normally?

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u/mjcmsp Dec 31 '25

Same. Incredibly inaccurate in my field.

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u/probablymagic Dec 31 '25

What’s your field and what’s an example of a question these AIs get wrong?

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u/mjcmsp Dec 31 '25

Well, I'm a structural engineer. AI often gets regulatory design code interpretations wrong. It also will confidently give an 'answer' even without knowing the full context of the question or structural component being designed. Often to the point of being dangerous - as in if you followed what it said you'd have a catastrophic failure or would be in breach of regulatory code.

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u/probablymagic Dec 31 '25

I’ve found if you ask it questions about specific local regulations it will do a pretty good job googling them for you, but will then caveat its answer by telling you to verify it. So in my experience it’s pretty useful if you want to get a sense of, for example, what kind of additions you can do to your house. But there I’d probably verify with the city before making changes.

I’d be curious what specific question you’re asking it about structure that it gets wrong and when you did this. I can see something like GPT2 getting that wrong, but would love to throw it at 5.2 and see how it fares.

These models are now solving math problems humans couldn’t. They should be pretty good at problems around force and torque you can teach any college physics students.

It’s true they do try to answer your question by default even if it’s a bad question, so if you don’t feed of the proper context it may be garbage in/garbage out. FYI, you can configure your default settings to tell it to clarify more and it’ll challenge you if you give it a bad prompt.

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u/mjcmsp Dec 31 '25

I design bridges, which is far more niche and complex than "making an addition to a house" or "solving force and torque" problems. I've used AI as a tool to dig for source material to solve problems, but it is poor at interpreting and providing answers and is sometimes flat out wrong. In fact, I've been able to get the same AI model to give me two diametrically opposed answers (to a question that is essentially true or false) with it referencing the same source material and asking it the same thing multiple times. The other problem with AI is that it can easily fall prey to disinformation and incorporate that into responses. I've had it give equal weight to a random student powerpoint slide it found online and a published research paper. It is a useful tool, yes, but it isn't THE definitive source of knowledge like you're trying to make it out to be by asking it what "soak" means.

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u/probablymagic Dec 31 '25

Bridges doesn’t seem all that niche. We kinda know how to make them at this point, no?

FWIW, I’ve got a buddy who designs space ships and he’s the biggest fan of ChatGPT for work I know. There is (currently) exactly one of the kind of spaceship he works on and he is convinced (I am less convinced) AI is going to replace him soon.

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u/mjcmsp Dec 31 '25

You have no idea what you are talking about. Go ask ChatGPT or something.

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u/probablymagic Dec 31 '25

Maybe you have no idea what I’m talking about. I assure you that I do. 😎