The stupidity of AI
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I'm dyeing some wool with acid dyes this afternoon. The quantities of dye powder are very small for just 2 oz. of wool. I needed 1/3 of a teaspoon of dye. My teaspoon set doesn't have a 1/3 measure, so I thought I'd just approximate it. But then I had the brilliant idea of searching the web for how to measure out 1/3 of a teaspoon. This is what AI overview in Microsoft Edge says:
To measure 1/3 teaspoon, you can either use a 1/3 teaspoon measuring spoon if you have one, or you can fill a 1/2 teaspoon and then fill a 1/4 teaspoon and use them together as an approximation. Alternatively, for liquid ingredients, divide a 1/3 cup into three equal amounts using a visual marker. You can then use the corresponding liquid amount from your visual marker to measure out the liquid ingredient.
Damn fool machinery. Pity the generation that grows up learning this B.S.
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A few thoughts about this.
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AI doesn't know when it's wrong. It isn't capable of saying, "I don't know." That in itself is a measure of its stupidity.
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Here we witness a product from premier companies generating drivel and it's offered as the top response. Have they no shame? Since when is it acceptable to pedal horse**** as intelligence?
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A few thoughts about this.
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AI doesn't know when it's wrong. It isn't capable of saying, "I don't know." That in itself is a measure of its stupidity.
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Here we witness a product from premier companies generating drivel and it's offered as the top response. Have they no shame? Since when is it acceptable to pedal horse**** as intelligence?
@Bernard said in The stupidity of AI:
- AI doesn't know when it's wrong.
This is one of the key points I always try to hammer on when talking about AI to my students.
AI cannot evaluate the veracity of its own output. And when humans use AI, we are most often doing so when (because) we do not know something, so we are also unable to evaluate the veracity of AI output.
This is a very bad combination.
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