• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Ugh. Don’t get me started.

    Most people don’t understand that the only thing it does is ‘put words together that usually go together’. It doesn’t know if something is right or wrong, just if it ‘sounds right’.

    Now, if you throw in enough data, it’ll kinda sorta make sense with what it writes. But as soon as you try to verify the things it writes, it falls apart.

    I once asked it to write a small article with a bit of history about my city and five interesting things to visit. In the history bit, it confused two people with similar names who lived 200 years apart. In the ‘things to visit’, it listed two museums by name that are hundreds of miles away. It invented another museum that does not exist. It also happily tells you to visit our Olympic stadium. While we do have a stadium, I can assure you we never hosted the Olympics. I’d remember that, as i’m older than said stadium.

    The scary bit is: what it wrote was lovely. If you read it, you’d want to visit for sure. You’d have no clue that it was wholly wrong, because it sounds so confident.

    AI has its uses. I’ve used it to rewrite a text that I already had and it does fine with tasks like that. Because you give it the correct info to work with.

    Use the tool appropriately and it’s handy. Use it inappropriately and it’s a fucking menace to society.

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I know this is off topic, but every time i see you comment of a thread all i can see is the pepsi logo (i use the sync app for reference)

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      13 hours ago

      I gave it a math problem to illustrate this and it got it wrong

      If it can’t do that imagine adding nuance

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        Ymmv i guess. I’ve given it many difficult calculus problems to help me through and it went well

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        13 hours ago

        Well, math is not really a language problem, so it’s understandable LLMs struggle with it more.

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            12 hours ago

            Hmm, yeah, AI never really did think. I can’t argue with that.

            It’s really strange now if I mentally zoom out a bit, that we have machines that are better at languange based reasoning than logic based (like math or coding).