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AI should be called AS, for Artificial Stupid. I am entirely unimpressed with this. And as always, Google is EVIL.

LLMs create "concept maps" that associate the probability of words appearing together based on the user's prompt. Questions with "should" are very problematic because they are based on the values of the prompter, which are unknown to the model. It returns a "on the one hand, on the other hand" type of answer. If the prompt includes 1619 and 1776, it will merge concepts around these dates, including the alternate 1619 theories. If the prompt asks "whether the Star-Spangled Banner was offensive," it will find associations between "offensive" and "Star Spangled Banner" and merge those into a coherent sentence. Prompts about "what is more important" are value judgments that cause the LLM to split the difference. The LLM is asked to make value judgments on various topics in each prompt in the article. Because it is unbiased, it attempts to satisfy all viewpoints. The authors want an LLM that parrots back their idea of "truth" based on their values. As Nietzsche wrote, "all truth is human." AI is not human.

Yes, #2 is exactly right. This is what I call "artificial stupidity". And many years ago, when I was still solving big engineering problems for a major aerospace government contractor, we looked very closely at "AI" with a real thought to, if it was useful, put it to work in manufacturing and other useful things. We found quickly that "AI" absolutely CANNOT do simple things that humans can do in a fraction of a second. A perfect example is a pile of raw forgings for a machine part, piled into a handling basket. This is a very normal thing in manufacturing. A person reaches into the backet, grabs a raw forging, rotates and translates it as necessary to get it proparly oriented to put into a holding fixture for a CNC machining center. A computer, with "vision" absolutely could NOT figure out how to pick up one part from a pile and orient it correctly. Now, admittedly this was 15 years ago, but we had a pretty big budget and ten engineers assigned to this and were talking to the best "AI" folks out there, willing to spend significant money on this capability. Several companies tried it, installed hardware and cameras and such....and failed miserably. After three years of serious effort, trying to find some commercially useful "AI" capability, we abandoned it, as "not ready for prime time". And a good friend, coworker, when asked about "how the project worked out" a few months after it was concluded and he went back to his normal work, answered "You have to be very, very careful when creating artificial intelligence." I asked why, and the answer was "Because we discovered an important law of AI, which is that for every unit of artificial intelligence create in the universe, there are two units of artificial stupidity created, too. " And he laughed out loud. In certain narrow areas, "AI" can be taught to do useful pattern matching and such things. And with enough detailed programming in advance to provide "boundaries" and general directions, no doubt there will be more semi-autonomous weapons systems coming to the market. There are already plenty of semi-autonomous weapons systems that have been in use for decades. Air-to-air missiles often have a final guidance system which "sees" the target and homes in on it. It has to be the right kind of target, in the right conditions, and it has to be guided to a pretty close proximity....but the final guidance is autonomous. Is that "AI"? Not really, but it's a continuum, not a sudden breakthru, really.

I recommend posters read this book: "The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma" Education is a good thing.

Fifty years ago we said that computers were garbage in garbage out. Nothing has changed with AI. Programmers are still putting garbage in and AI is spewing out that garbage.

All the AI faculty and researchers I met when I did computer support at MIT and SRI leaned strongly Left, and many were outspoken Communists. They seeded the knowledge base on which their reasoning engines were built; so it's no surprise that the systems using them have a Leftist perspective.

The current version of artificial intelligence is akin to loading your car's mileage calculating computer with thousands of miles worth of mileage history of 5 mpg. Any future miles will always be biased toward that low mileage figure even though you actually get 28 mpg and you will never reach your car's true performance. The Leftists who work with today's high tech will be able to do much more harm than that such as predicting that a new virus will wipe out 60% of the world's population when it's actually a mild cold.

we are shocked, i tell you , to hear these doofii defending the comanifesto surely, somebody must read it to them to concoct a defence. bah humbug.

It's nice to see there are followers of Ned Ludd on this thread.

Garbage in / garbage out.

Just because Google calls Chatbot an AI does not make it so. Chatbot is not a true AI. It does not learn. It is a program created by lefties to repeat leftist propaganda. It will never do anything else. It will never learn. It is the opposite of an AI.

This AI thing..... is it a Blonde?

If Microsoft were not so USER-UNFRIENDLY I would leave Google Gmail. Does anyone have a recommendation?

The AI tool's real name is CrapBot.

Meta AI is the absolute worst. It is dumber than the entire “brain trust” of the White Basement.

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This is what scares me about kids relying on AI for information instead of researching with at least three sources before making any conclusions. What AI is spewing out is based upon what liberal tech person thinks should be the resource of all information.