AlessandroOct 24, 2024
James Thomson

Trying to decide if this description of generative AI on the BBC could be any more wrong:

“Generative AI is technology that enables a computer to think or act in a more human way.

It does this by taking in information from its surroundings, and deciding the best response based on what it learns.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz04emrxp4xo

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Show threadJohn ParkerOct 24, 2024

@jamesthomson Yeah… it's a _lot_ more like an incorrect auto-correct than that.

Clippy with brain fog on a low spoons day.

🤔

Show threadAlessandroOct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson If I were an AI plotting an epic takeover, I'd totally introduce myself like that.
Show threadMarc Robinson Oct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson It’s the generative ai definition of generative ai.
Show threadChris SnazellOct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson having recently completed an MSc at Glasgow Uni I was stunned by how much my classmates were relying on it. Especially since none of them understood how it worked.
Show threadRobert Petersen Oct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson “AI is very computationally expensive auto complete” didn’t have the same ring to it.
Show thread[email protected]Oct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson Ugh yeah. Then realise that AI or computers might not seem a good representation of how a human brian works in the first place. BUt hey. The usual click bait bollocks…
Show threadViktorShahterOct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson thing I hate the most about such posts and overall direction of AI is that it's considered an AI. There's no AI in the first place. There's no intelligence.
Show threadGilbert PilzOct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson - the notion that generative AI is somehow "intelligent" only makes sense to people who have never spent any time thinking about what "intelligence" might be.
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Oct 24, 2024

@jamesthomson I live in the UK but I rarely go to the BBC for news because I feel like my intelligence is being insulted each time I read an article.

#BBC

Show threadNate BarhamOct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson 🤦‍♂️
Show threadmtc_ukOct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson There are always new depths to be plumbed, not to worry.
Show threadMatchaMakesOct 24, 2024
@jamesthomson How would you rewrite it?
Show threadJames ThomsonOct 24, 2024
@matcha06 Gen AI doesn’t think like a human, it doesn’t think at all - it’s a statistical model of the English language.
Show threadMatchaMakesOct 24, 2024

@jamesthomson “Gen AI doesn’t think like a human, it doesn’t think at all - it’s a statistical model of the English language.

It does this by taking in information from its surroundings, and deciding the best response based on what it learns.”

I like it better!