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I do not understand how AI is allowed to be so utterly useless.
Well, I mean I do, it's money, but deep down in the core of my being I do not understand.
FFS
Chris Godwin@eclectech AI is the ultimate sycophant. It will do anything to give you the answer it thinks you asked for.
"I don't know" is the most powerful phrase in the world, it drives science and discovery and is a core driver of human intelligence.
Something an AI will never say, instead will cobble together a load of bovine fecal matter because it *has* to give an answer.
Come to think of it, we could just replace all politicians with AI!?
@Chrisgodwin This is a very good point. We should appreciate “I don’t know” far more than we do.
It’s a serious indictment of AI that I think I would even prefer human politicians to AI ones 😬
Marta 🌿🍃@eclectech Oh, I just finished his book. Oh no, I can read two chapters of the latest one for free, I'm doomed.
Back to the post... I think at this point it's something like Olympic training. It takes a lot of healthy children and produces a lot of disappointed children, some of them traumatised, and a few of them are actual successful athletes. Do people think that Olympic training is flawed? Mostly no, as long as it produces those few athletes. Compared to say school systems that ought to produce 100% of children that can read, after N years or months, depending on the language.
I don't know why it isn't treated like school though, being a widespread, non-niche thing.
Back to the post... I think at this point it's something like Olympic training. It takes a lot of healthy children and produces a lot of disappointed children, some of them traumatised, and a few of them are actual successful athletes. Do people think that Olympic training is flawed? Mostly no, as long as it produces those few athletes. Compared to say school systems that ought to produce 100% of children that can read, after N years or months, depending on the language.
I don't know why it isn't treated like school though, being a widespread, non-niche thing.