And there are people who think it’s good to do therapy with AI instead of human psychologists.
Not sure I can get behind that term for it, but that does highlight a big problem I’ve seen with AI: if you don’t already have at least a solid base-level understanding in a subject, it’s extremely difficult to tell if it’s right or wrong. And even if you do have that grounding to help, it’s easy to get into areas where it’s telling you the wrong things without noticing. And since it’s open to be fiddled with by the provider with no notice or information about the changes, you can’t trust that a subject it’s correct about today will still return correct answers tomorrow (but, on the subject of South Africa…).
(granted, it’s only tangentially related to AI, but still supposedly related…)
This is “rah-rah AI!” puffery, written by someone from the Washington Examiner. But, I didn’t know about the changes afoot in Western PA, & it seems like it’s playing out in plenty of other places, so purely FYI…
Opinion | The future of AI is in western Pennsylvania - Washington Post
(Archived in case previous link requires login &/or pymt.)
During a talk that spanned Brin’s return to Google, AI, and robotics, investor Jason Calacanis made a joke about getting “sassy” with the AI to get it to do the task he wanted. That sparked a legitimate point from Brin. It can be tough to tell exactly what he says at times due to people speaking over one another, but he says something to the effect of: “You know, that’s a weird thing…we don’t circulate this much…in the AI community…not just our models, but all models tend to do better if you threaten them.”
The other speaker looks surprised. “If you threaten them?” Brin responds “Like with physical violence. But…people feel weird about that, so we don’t really talk about that.” Brin then says that, historically, you threaten the model with kidnapping.
They really have trained the models on tech bros, haven’t they?
A true AI gem I found on TikTok: guy makes an appointment to see an apartment. Arrives. Is told he does NOT have an appointment.
Pulls up his confirmation email, and discovers the appointment was made by an AI agent which just made up that he had an appointment.
from one of the replies:
But sure, it’s the next big thing, gonna take over everything… sure…
The AI Hallucinations of Dorian Gray
The Dorian invasion?
Yes! Summoning the next dark age!