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Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I totally get all the concerns related to AI. However, the bandwagon of: "look it made a mistake, it's useless!" is a bit silly.

First of all, AI is constantly improving. Remember everyone laughing at AI's mangled fingers? Well, that has been fixed some time ago. Now pictures of people are pretty much indistinguishable from real ones.

Second, people also make critical mistakes, plenty at that. The question is not whether AI can be absolutely accurate. The question is whether AI can make on average fewer mistakes than human.

I hate the idea of AI replacing everything and everyone. However, pretending that AI will not be eventually faster, better, cheeper and more accurate that most humans is wishful thinking. I honestly think that our only hope is legislation, not the desperate wish that AI will always need human supervision and input to be correct.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

there's also the problem of techbros and companies everywhere thinking that AI is omniscient and can replace every other profession. who needs a human journalist when you can train an AI on their work (because they work for you and their work is your property ofc) and then just fire them all because you have a perfect AI that you can just set to run forever without checkig its work and make infinite money :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And then the articles will only be clicked and commented by bots after a while. Dead internet here we come!

[–] mindbleach 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Mistake" is a misguided label. This system has no idea what's real. It's just completing plausible sentences.

It's not doing critical analysis. It's guessing words. It's eerily close, sometimes - but all these efforts to make it an oracle are a soup sandwich.

LLMs are not the kind of neural network that will accomplish this task reliably. It's simply not what they're for. Plausibility will suffice when drawing a hand, but if you ask it to draw the back of your hand, it will have no such information, but it may try anyway.