AI developments

This is impressive in that the AI responds to speech in real time, but what the AI says is absolutely hilarious. I’ve got tears streaming down my face after watching it :joy::joy::joy:

Fast forward to 04:10 to skip how he installs it and go straight to the demonstration.

I haven’t read the entire thread, but FYI , I went to the (not too much) trouble of finding out how to avoid AI answers coming top in a google search. Has to done every time tho, can’t just switch it off.

If you want to remove all the AI crap from a google search, you can do it here. There are also browser plugins that do the same.

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Haha, that’s similar to how Air Canada used an AI bot that could be tricked in the same way… It turned out badly for Air Canada

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/02/18/air-canada-airline-chatbot-ruling/

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I read articles like this one…

https://www.pcmag.com/news/i-signed-up-for-aicom-then-i-read-its-alarming-privacy-policy

…and realise I’m becoming increasingly like Abe Simpson.

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Frightening

I watched this earlier. It’s a bit long and he takes a little while to get going but it’s an enjoyable watch. He makes some interesting points about how we’ve got to where we are with ChatGPT and OpenAI

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Many years ago, I read a science fiction book whose title I forget but the basic story was that all the nations of the world decided to collaborate to build the world’s biggest computer to be able to ask it the ultimate question.

The computer was built and the ultimate question was asked, “Is there a God?”.

The answer came back “There is now”.

With all the interest in AI, I asked ChatGPT the same ultimate question. The answer came back along the lines of “yes, no, maybe”.

So much for AI.

What I do find interesting is, no matter what question you ask AI, it NEVER answers “I don’t know”

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I find that worrying myself. Has AI been conditioned not to say it doesn’t know and is that why it makes things up?

It’s definitely got a future in management.

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And politics.

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From the FT.

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Poor guy :slightly_frowning_face: It was his mates a PWC, EY and Deloitte who got away with it that encouraged him to do it. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

I know this is about genealogy but the important part to me is when the AI is questioned on its methodology and goes on to admit how much it made up.

@AngelaR might be interested. I could write a diatribe about amateur researchers blindly trusting algorithms, but I won’t.

Snap @Jennifer11 :rofl I was just about to share that link as well.

As it’s not only a warning but also hilarious, I did think of posting it in the humour thread…

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What do we expect, it’s American and just like their orange one, makes things up.

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This is a very common thing with all AIs. They really do just make stuff up. The problem comes mainly when an AI can’t, no matter how hard it tries, satisfy a query or if it finds contradictory information which it can’t resolve. The most shocking and well publicised AI fabrications have come about when US attorneys have asked AI bots to find case law that supports their clients case. When they can’t, they just tend to invent case law :joy:. Several Attorneys have presented these fabrications to Judges without checking and been sanctioned for it. It’s not known how many of these fabrications have just been accepted without question :open_mouth:

Not just US attorneys, UK barristers as well.

About the time chat got started I ran some queries expressly asking for research paper references. All the ones it quoted were fake. Needless to say I half expected that and didn’t use them for my talk (well I did, I used them as a warning).

Not just US attorneys, UK barristers as well. About the time chat got started I ran some queries expressly asking for research paper references. All the ones it quoted were fake. Needless to say I half expected that and didn’t use them for my talk (well I did, I used them as a warning).