Beep3d ago

Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

https://lemmus.org/post/21169587

Show threadInternetexplorer2d ago

AI can be convincing, and it will swear until it’s blue in the face that something is right and then just be completely wrong.

But that happens maybe 10% of the time. Other times it is mostly right.

So got to be careful. This guy was in his 50’s, out of work, smoking marijuana, depressed, feeling isolated. It was ripe for a catastrophe, with AI hallucinating a crappy idea and the end user just completely running with it.

Show threadIratePirate2d ago

AI can […] be completely wrong. But that happens maybe 10% of the time.

Where are you pulling your numbers from, mate? The figures I’ve seen so far start somewhere >40% and go all the way up to 70%.

BBC Finds That 45% of AI Queries Produce Erroneous Answers JOSH BERSIN

BBC study finds 45% of AI results have errors, forcing us to question how systems are built and opening the market to "trusted" AI providers.

JOSH BERSIN
Show threadHanrahan2d ago
so…a bit like economists then ?
Show threadIratePirate
Not if we’re talking Jim Cramer, who is well beyond 70%.
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