Greg Egan2d ago

“I’d created 2000 free-text responses and labelled them ‘UK’. Then I copied and pasted the exact same 2000 responses but labelled these ‘US’. Finally, I combined them to create a dataset of 4000 total responses, and jumbled them up.

Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.”

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes

H/T @sinalana.eurosky.social

Real signals or artificial stereotypes?

Adventures with a cultural Copilot

Understanding the unseen
Show threadKhleedril2d ago

@gregeganSF @sinalana.eurosky.social What this basically demonstrates is that AI is a Bayesian filter, taking data in and using it to update its already massive database.

Actually, the updating is not really live, the AI /only/ uses its existing database to produce the results based on (prompted by) the new data. This application of it is just inappropriate.

The problem here is people not understanding what AI means as a technical term.

Show threadOptional2d ago
@khleedril
> complains about people not understanding technical terms
> incoherently mushes the terms "AI", "Bayesian filters" and "databases" together
Show threadKhleedril
@Optional Okay so here I am complaining that you don't know what you're talking about. Go ahead and change my mind. I'm open to reinforcement learning.
May 20 at 6:09pmWeb
Show threadOptional1d ago
@khleedril I can tell that it's important for you to have an accurate map of reality so I really hope you don't think of yourself as a nice person, because you're actually a huge piece of shit
#blocked