3 Apr
2025
3 Apr
'25
7:41 a.m.
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(a)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.