This is like the dozenth time Google put hallucinations in their AI presentation/AD. They just don‘t care.
Especially considering that the “pointing out of said hallucinations” comes much later than when they’re shared. And NEVER made it as far and wide as the initial bullshit.
Stop calling gpt ai
That’s the inaccurate name everyone’s settled on. Kinda like how “sentient” is widely used to mean “sapient” despite being two different things.
I made a smartass comment earlier comparing AI to fire, but it’s really my favorite metaphor for it - and it extends to this issue. Depending on how you define it, fire seems to meet the requirements for being alive. It tends to come up in the same conversations that question whether a virus is alive. I think it’s fair to think of LLMs (particularly the current implementations) as intelligent - just in the same way we think of fire or a virus as alive. Having many of the characteristics of it, but being a step removed.
That is an extremely apt parallel!
(I’m stealing it)
This article is about Gemini, not GPT. The generic term is LLM: Large Language Model.
You put a few GPTs in a trenchcoat and they’re obviously AI. I can’t speak about openAIs offerings since I won’t use it as a cloud service, but local deepseek I’ve tried is certainly AI. People are moving the goalposts constantly, with what seems to me a determination to avoid seeing the future that’s already here. Download deepseek-v2-coder 16b if you have 16GB of ram and 10gb of storage space and see for yourselves, it’s ridiculously low requirements for what it can do, it uses 50% of four cpu cores for like 15 seconds to solve a problem with detailed reasoning steps.
Slightly off topic, but the writing on this article is horrible. Optimizing for Google engagement, it seems. Ironically, an AI would probably have produced something vastly more readable.
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.
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 :)
And then the articles will only be clicked and commented by bots after a while. Dead internet here we come!
Flames burn and smoke asphyxiates, perfectly highlighting why relying on fire is a bad idea.
begs the question
Not it doesn’t. Did an Ai slop this story too?
Not it doesn’t. Did an Ai slop this story too?
No it doesn’t. Did an AI slop this story too?
