lol, "if only someone had warned us about this sort of thing?!"

@agasramirez oh wow, I've heard talk of this attitude but to actually see it in action!

@Lazarou
I wish they'd stop calling it "#AI".

It isn't. Not even close. I went to college to study #AI decades ago.

What they are calling "AI" today is nothing more than "deep database scrubbing".

It *assumes* an answer is correct based simply on the number of results it finds supporting that conclusion.

#GIGO: Garbage In; Garbage Out.

@MugsysRapSheet @Lazarou

AI = Artificial Idiocy

And it's not even good at that

@Lazarou I don't like that google keeps using AI to answer my questions, but I have not bothered to look elsewhere. BUT I run several aquariums since covid and one suddenly turned cloudy and green so I asked and was told, "The Water is too Fat"

oh well that solves everything so I get it. That is frightening.

#aislop

@MugsysRapSheet @Lazarou AI has always been a marketing term. What was "machine learning" back when you were probably studying bares little resemblance to Large Language models, but it all get lumped in the same bucket.

Even when criticizing it, we're encouraged to use terms like "hallucinations" that anthropomorphise the systems, instead of using more correct terms like "statistical error".

@Lazarou

@Lazarou I'm sorry but this is hilarious

@agasramirez @Lazarou To be fair this argument can be valid to some extent.

Though I feel most of "AI" is overhyped and will just end up locking down users/companies into big tech providing inference for them...

@Lazarou God I hope this post is true

@Lazarou
So … what’s the problem? It functions exactly as designed!

@Lazarou “We ran into some trouble setting up an office in West Fobispa. Turned out there was no such place. The whole state of Warmington was a hallucination. That was half of our profits the last fiscal year!”

@su_liam such incredible faith they put into a machine that they wouldn't put into another human being

@f @Lazarou sure but now add that anybody not using AI is threatened with being fired anddd the company is refusing to implement a strategy or spend any money on AI tools-- it's just "use AI."

@Lazarou

I know this probably makes me a terrible person but I honestly can't _wait_ for the lawsuits.

Added bonus laughs if they use AI to write their legal briefs.

@Lazarou I saw a few times in my paid for AI not only data is false but also math - for example the inability to convert base2 and base10, or the inability to differentiate meaning in small and large letters in (throughput) calculations - KB Kb. Basically corrupting the web with millions of "small" errors that humans mostly recognise.

@jbaggs @MugsysRapSheet @Lazarou It does not at all meet the definition of statistical error, a jargon term in statistics practice. If so we could ask the AI a hundred times and average the results for the correct answer.

@glent @MugsysRapSheet @Lazarou bonk

@glent@aus.social @MugsysRapSheet @Lazarou No. that would be the "normalized answer" and not necessarily correct at all. Just "average".

@Lazarou

@Lazarou "double checking" and "accident".
EPIC.
seems like today double checking is some kind of failure