abadideaI cannot stop thinking about how a century of speculative fiction about catastrophic rogue AI meltdown became a self-fulfilling prophecy by building an AI that functions by running a probabilistic lookup on a table of all fiction humans have ever written to determine what the average AI would do in the current situation
Drey@0xabad1dea - AI models, particularly newer reasoning models, can hallucinate, meaning they generate outputs that are factually incorrect or nonsensical, often presenting them as true.
Chao-c'@atlovato which, BTW, was not predicted by most fiction. AI was either evil, good, or maybe somehow transcending evil or good. Often trying to spread and replicate itself.
But hallucinating? Lying, to gain advantage, yeas. But not lying by design :-)
Vashti@xChaos @atlovato @0xabad1dea Douglas Adams managed to predict that advanced tech would just be annoying, inaccurate and venal.
He had *no* idea.