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Hackworth

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CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

Hackworth ,

Wikipedia got where it is today by providing accurate information. Google results have always been full of inaccurate information. Sorting through the links for respectable sources just became second nature, then we learned to scroll past ads to start sorting through links. The real issue with misinformation from an AI is that people treat it like it should be some infallible Oracle - a point of view only half-discouraged by marketing with a few warnings about hallucinations. LLMs are amazing, they're just not infallible. Just like you'd check a Wikipedia source if it seemed suspect, you shouldn't trust LLM outputs uncritically. /shrug

Hackworth ,

I do think Perplexity does a better job. Since it cites sources in its generated response, you can easily check its answer. As to the general public trusting Google, the company's fall from grace began in 2017, when the EU fined them like 2 billion for fixing search results. There've been a steady stream of controversies since then, including the revelation that Chrome continues to track you in private mode. YouTube's predatory practices are relatively well-known. I guess I'm saying that if this is what finally makes people give up on them, no skin off my back. But I'm disappointed by how much their mismanagement seems to be adding to the pile of negativity surrounding AI.

Hackworth ,

We rely on nature for everything. The water wars will make that more apparent, I suppose.

Hackworth ,

Yes, the water wars will be about fresh water. No one goes to war over water that needs to be boiled. And no, climate change does not mean more fresh water.

Hackworth ,

That's for its own benefit. It has to talk through it (or alternatively code through it) to work out the answer. S'just showing its work.

Hackworth ,

Women's birth control hasn't exactly been side-effect-free, what with the strokes. But also, sauce?

Hackworth ,

Okay.

Hackworth ,

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Hackworth ,

I've heard every possible combination of thoughts on A.I. We need like a 6-dimensional alignment chart.

Hackworth ,

Oh I have an opinion, I just meant to keep track of everyone's for the sake of conversation.

Hackworth ,

I'm in whatever subset of 4 believes advancements in AI are necessary almost to the point of being an ethical obligation at this point. Transhuman or bust.

Hackworth ,

I hear good things about Krita.

Hackworth ,

Fuck OpenAI's attempts at regulatory capture. But A.I. is amazing. Fuck humans.

Hackworth ,

But for real, if you want to know the state of AI, go to Hugging Face.

Hackworth ,

To be clear, if they can make living dinosaurs, they totally should. Like, don't make an amusement park out of it, but if we can bring dinosaurs back and choose not to, that's gotta be some kinda unethical.

Hackworth ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4db4ac29-c983-43ee-a012-bda19b80e74e.png

Hackworth ,

The Adobe ecosystem is finally starting to bother me enough to bounce. But I've worked with these programs for 30 years, so moving to Davinci and Krita is going to be a thing. And afaik, there's no real replacement for After Effects.

Hackworth ,

Interesting! Never heard of Affinity, so that's an alternative to InDesign/Illustrator it looks like? I ditched Windows for Linux (Mint at the moment) this year, but I honestly haven't even sat at that computer in six months, so...

Hackworth ,

The Internet is dead. Long live the Internet!

I'll have my AI agents talk to your AI agents.

Hackworth ,

As long as the footage is still accessible, sounds great to me!

Hackworth ,

Efficiencies are in the works from a lot of angles (new hardware, novel agent structures, new neural net types, etc). The first computers filled rooms, and AI seems to be improving much faster. 4x the rate of Moore's Law, if it holds.

Hackworth ,

To tie that back to MS, the code base for Windows is crufty af. I expect efficiencies to continue to come from the research and open source domains, but it's fair to point out that corpo only implement efficiencies that cost money if they can't offset that cost onto externalities like cheap labor and foreign resource degradation.

Hackworth ,

Musta entered the forbidden numbers. 80085

Hackworth ,

Is Reddit pretty much the same? From my limited perspective, a lot of the genuine contributors left, quietly or otherwise. I've found it much more difficult to have an interesting discussion on there since the API debacle. Most of Reddit was already lurkers and bots, so all it took was a significant proportion of the tiny minority of quality contributors to take their time elsewhere for reddit to become a complete dumpster fire.

Hackworth ,

I don't have numbers, but I did. Took Redact 9 hours to overwrite & delete the 17,000 comments on my 17-year-old account. But watching them scroll by, most weren't really worth keeping. I saw several 15+ year-old active accounts do the same before I left.

Hackworth ,

I have all my deleted comments in a csv (with context links), which I plan on fine-tuning an LLM with just for fun. I guess if there's a platform that'll accept it, I'd be happy to upload it. Mostly I wanted to make sure the info remains free for everyone, including AI researchers.

Hackworth ,

Through the API - well, it was through the API before they changed it. No idea if that's possible now.

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