No, the the part about "AI makes stuff up" is actually inherent in the
design of Large Language Model AI. LLM AI draws inferences about
relationships from statistical relationships, which do not accurately
predict cause and effect and which depend on what fallible humans choose
to feed to the model. The AI model doesn't "understand" context or the
truthfulness of its input, and doesn't understand the concept of truth,
only of statistical plausibility. If you ask it to supply information
in an area it lacks training, the results can look plausible but be false.
AI can be very good at finding associations and information more
efficiently, but you have to understand its limitations, and initial
indications are that the general public doesn't understand that. If you
want "truth" you have to have to be willing to do some independent
verification. One of the risks with AI is that at some point people
may start regarding AI results as more authoritative than first-order
sources of factual information.
JC Ewing
On 1/22/25 8:57 AM, Dick Williams wrote:
The most valuable company in the world is NVIDIA. 3.6 trillion market cap.
Their main product is AI chipsets. I’ll bet many of the “AI is bad and makes
stuff up” folks were also “the mainframe is dead” people in 1995.
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On Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 8:22 PM, Dick Williams
<0000071a5827fb2c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Experts just today confirmed an investment of 500 billion to build AI data
centers. No matter what this group believes, AI is real and the future of
technology.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/tech/openai-oracle-softbank-trump-ai-investment?cid=ios_app
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On Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 8:14 PM, Dick Williams
<dickwilliams2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I want the truth, always. Like manmade global warming is real. Today, the truth
is whatever bull people want to believe. You can find people who believe the
earth is flat. (It isn’t) That’s why I always deferred to the experts here. Not
the ones who think they are experts but the actual experts. Like Peter Relson.
Mark Thomen. (RIP) Roger Miller.
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On Thursday, January 16, 2025, 1:39 PM, Patrick Falcone
<0000012526080649-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Would cut all the *llsh*t out and save time and money, wait a minute - that
makes too much sense. If something tells you what you want to hear all the time
what happens to the stuff you really need to hear to keep a close eye on, yes,
all the a**hol** out there who want to make/take, it all.
Thanks for all your help, be seeing you ...
On Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:13:57 AM EST, Bob Bridges
<00000587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
I'm reminded of a quote attributed to Sam Goldwyn: "I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs". When I first encountered it I thought of it as a mere joke. It was only years later that I realized Goldwyn was telling the exact, literal truth: That is indeed what he wants around him, people who will tell him the truth even if they fear he'll fire them for it. Of course he'd be foolish to fire someone just for that....
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The ancient Chinese curse of YES men, or YES robots.
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