Carl T. BergstromMar 23, 2023

Yesterday I had a number of conversations with people working in the scholarly publishing sphere about what happens when AI chatbots pollute our information environment and then start feeding on this pollution.

As it so often, the case, we didn’t have to wait long to get some hint of the kind of mess we could be looking at.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation

Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow

Microsoft’s AI chatbot Bing incorrectly reported the demise of Google’s AI chatbot Bard. It’s an early warning sign that this technology is fueling a massive game of misinformation telephone.

The Verge
Show threadjorikiMar 23, 2023

@ct_bergstrom almost like the alpha go zero of delusional bullshit

ref: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-starting-from-scratch

AlphaGo Zero: Starting from scratch

Artificial intelligence research has made rapid progress in a wide variety of domains from speech recognition and image classification to genomics and drug discovery. In many cases, these are specialist systems that leverage enormous amounts of human expertise and data.

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@ct_bergstrom in any case, seems like a mashup of "flood the zone with shit" and "can we automate that?"
Mar 23, 2023 at 5:02pmWeb