ChatGPT can now accurately tell you who I am, but if you ask it to recommend some articles, it will continuously generate a string of pieces I have never actually written instead of retrieving real ones from the Internet. On this last round, one was called "The Case for Political Violence."
Genuinely don't know what's so hard for people using and pushing this tech to understand about this. The companies have an incentive to mislead here, yes, but for everyone else...it's not complicated! bsky.app/profile/edbu...
One good thing I cite is that this all is gonna make people actually skeptical of computers/models/algos etc. That’s upside of calling them hallucinations, really does work to unlock recognition in people that computers have glitches. People just need to use some more. (Though it’s only incremental)
I mean, this extends to pretty much all of computers and science. Because of semantic issues, people assume they’re able to do very different things than they can. We need to acknowledge, get better.
I mean, we’re all still working on groking that newtonian physics does not really produce what it says without the important caveats. We need people thinking about the caveats more
As usual, maybe not much hope on the positive outcome here from people playing with this stuff, but do have some faith is possible. It’s a live human general intelligence
In 30 years, I can't wait for my AI doctor to tell me that to solve my high blood pressure, they're going to have to remove my heart.
( In all fairness, it will solve my high blood pressure. )
it's a very rudimentary tool being sold to us as Einstein's brain. and as it underperforms its task as the human experience, its salesmen keep tweaking it to give a better poor facsimile.
First, tech provided us with platforms that were promptly used to make fact and fiction indistinguishable. Now they’ve given us an oracle that’s very good at blending fact and fiction to generate a misshapen facsimile of knowledge.
And corps see this as a gold rush.
That’s a pretty bad combo.
Also - My first thought when I saw your skeet was, “Wow, it can generate anything and present it as a hard fact but it can’t be sued for defamation/libel.” That’s pretty scary.
To be honest, I’m not sure when it tells me i won certain awards, I didn’t really keep track but do think it’s embellishing a bit (see, this is why you be bit nice to computers. But not too nice)
