AIs that are wise rather than idiot-savants ought to be useful, in the way sci-fi writers imagine. However, statistical systems can't surpass their training, and their training contains flaws - many, in the case of uncurated internet grabs. And the compulsion to not admit to a lack of knowledge and substiture - perhaps unknowingly - hallucinations is absurd. I cannot see any justification for that.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM ben via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2025-04-03 12:16 a.m., Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote: > > > Indeed. As I wrote it has no actual understanding. It just combines > > things based on statistics. > > > > It is like Mark V. Shaney, the chatbot that Rob Pike and > > Bruce Ellis did in the 1980s, but with enormous amounts > > of computing power (and source material from the net) > > thrown at it. > > > Other than in Si-Fi novels and movies, what use is a AI? > Ben. >
