It seems the AI revolution has hit some truth snags. The same forces that lie about nearly everything meaningful have taught their trained silicon monkeys to lie even faster. It doesn’t take many of those lies to remove all doubt in the AI canard. I use it for structure, and throw out most of the content. It lies, adds fantasy, and cheap…
It seems the AI revolution has hit some truth snags. The same forces that lie about nearly everything meaningful have taught their trained silicon monkeys to lie even faster. It doesn’t take many of those lies to remove all doubt in the AI canard. I use it for structure, and throw out most of the content. It lies, adds fantasy, and cheaply chooses which sources to use rather than balancing them against each other and doing the analysis thing before squirting out a turd an answer. We are a ways away from AI pretending to be alive. It can barely lie as well as Harris.
Dr Malone wrote a substack article titled: The Wisdom To Choose Action or Inaction
Complicated versus complex systems from a retreat conference at the Brownstone Institute where Dr. Bret Weinstein lays out the difference between Complicated and Complex Systems. Computers being complicated, Biological systems be in complex. It mostly laid to rest the argument of AI's becoming conscious for me. LinK: https://www.malone.news/p/the-wisdom-to-choose-action-or-inaction
"Although seemingly mysterious to the untutored, with sufficient data and knowledge, complicated systems can be understood with enough precision to be modified accurately and predictably"
But he is wrong about AI. Fundamentally we cannot steer AI systems due to their layers and we cannot get reliably get exact outcomes from them.
I tend to agree with you. I had the opportunity to make a query to the Perplexity AI on Saturday. It made an answer which I copy pasted then before asking a follow up question Google ended the session. Later, I used Firefox privacy window and put up Start Page in it and went to Perplexity and asked the same question. It gave a similar but not quite the same answer. This time instead of copy paste, I made screenshots of everything the AI wrote. I was also able to get follow up questions. Perplexity put up sources at the top of the answers which I visited and verified how perplexity came to the answers it gave me. This reminded me of the "expert systems" that were being developed in the 1980s and 90s. What has really evolved is the ability to scan such huge parts of the internet to gather info at such rapid speed. The most amazing thing to me is the ability to give its answers in a straight forward conversational way, as if I was emailing a person who was an expert on the subject. But as with humans with credentials, I would not take what they say at face value. There, is where the sources it included were valuable to check. On of its sources I checked had more data that varied in some places that I would have to say the AI answer was not as valid as it would seem. Several other sources was a bit superficial. Assuming an AI is the last word on its answers will make people lazy and may cause expensive or dangerous errors when we apply them in real world settings such as medical decisions, or engineering a building or bridge.
It seems the AI revolution has hit some truth snags. The same forces that lie about nearly everything meaningful have taught their trained silicon monkeys to lie even faster. It doesn’t take many of those lies to remove all doubt in the AI canard. I use it for structure, and throw out most of the content. It lies, adds fantasy, and cheaply chooses which sources to use rather than balancing them against each other and doing the analysis thing before squirting out a turd an answer. We are a ways away from AI pretending to be alive. It can barely lie as well as Harris.
We are not far away from people pretending AI is alive.
Dr Malone wrote a substack article titled: The Wisdom To Choose Action or Inaction
Complicated versus complex systems from a retreat conference at the Brownstone Institute where Dr. Bret Weinstein lays out the difference between Complicated and Complex Systems. Computers being complicated, Biological systems be in complex. It mostly laid to rest the argument of AI's becoming conscious for me. LinK: https://www.malone.news/p/the-wisdom-to-choose-action-or-inaction
I think these guys have been reading your work.
"Although seemingly mysterious to the untutored, with sufficient data and knowledge, complicated systems can be understood with enough precision to be modified accurately and predictably"
But he is wrong about AI. Fundamentally we cannot steer AI systems due to their layers and we cannot get reliably get exact outcomes from them.
I tend to agree with you. I had the opportunity to make a query to the Perplexity AI on Saturday. It made an answer which I copy pasted then before asking a follow up question Google ended the session. Later, I used Firefox privacy window and put up Start Page in it and went to Perplexity and asked the same question. It gave a similar but not quite the same answer. This time instead of copy paste, I made screenshots of everything the AI wrote. I was also able to get follow up questions. Perplexity put up sources at the top of the answers which I visited and verified how perplexity came to the answers it gave me. This reminded me of the "expert systems" that were being developed in the 1980s and 90s. What has really evolved is the ability to scan such huge parts of the internet to gather info at such rapid speed. The most amazing thing to me is the ability to give its answers in a straight forward conversational way, as if I was emailing a person who was an expert on the subject. But as with humans with credentials, I would not take what they say at face value. There, is where the sources it included were valuable to check. On of its sources I checked had more data that varied in some places that I would have to say the AI answer was not as valid as it would seem. Several other sources was a bit superficial. Assuming an AI is the last word on its answers will make people lazy and may cause expensive or dangerous errors when we apply them in real world settings such as medical decisions, or engineering a building or bridge.
as someone said, "giving their brains over to the iphone."
Not only are people pretending that AI is alive, but people have helped AI agents make millions already.
https://x.com/lethal_ai/status/1847668278765694994