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Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor
(www.theguardian.com)
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Very good and entertaining article
To a layperson, at least, it seems that consumer technology has long since entered an era of solutions in search of problems – particularly troubling at a time when the world is facing so many genuinely intractable crises. As entertaining as it is to watch our tech overlords flounder on stage, it raises bigger questions, such as: who exactly asked for this, beyond the billionaires cashing in? And: can we just not?
"can we just not?"
I feel this deep in my soul. Every day. Multiple times a day.
It's bleak because of how hard this stuff is being pushed.
I got to laugh off the Metaverse because it flopped long before it could be forced down my throat. I looked askance at Crypto, but broadly avoided it without consequence. Now I've vendors injecting AI into their tech support service, and it isn't something I can wave away anymore.
Crypto's only use for me is making it universally easy to pay every tech/vpn company I deal with.
beyond that, people launder money, buy drugs and do darkweb shit with a minority of privacy folks harping privacytokens like Monero.
I'd love if Steam took BTC and people selling used items online embraced it. The grocery store? Ehhhhhhhhh. Nah.
The grocery store? Ehhhhhhhhh. Nah.
If my banks services were seamlessly replaced by a cheaper, faster crypto service then I would not complain.
Crypto is much faster than an international wire and cheaper for sending less than $5000
The shift will happen when the user can't tell the difference.
The difference is that crypto is better than ever. I tried to send an overseas wire (to a friend from real life) and my bank just told me security blocked it and I can't push it through
No problem sending USDC, after some minutes it confirmed and he was able to withdraw
I've seen several "creators" pointing to AI overviews as "evidence" of things without ever fact-checking them (because if you were interested in facts you wouldn't bother with them anyway). I have family and friends send me AI-generated bullshit day in and day out.
It's especially infuriating when they send me "but ChatGPT says..." about something I'm literally an expert in. Like I do this all day every day and you're taking the word of a chatbot over me.
I hate when people do that. The robot is wrong! All the freaking time.
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And the nightmare just keeps getting worse and worse.
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Talked to a guy recently that claimed ChatGPT has "an IQ of over 300". Laughed hard, he got mad at me laughing.
Tell him I too laughed at him out loud like a lunatic.
Ask him how many "R"s are in Strawberry
There are no "R"'s (capital r) in strawberry.
R and r are the same letter. You can tell because a word that starts with r can be written with R at the start of the sentence
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Look, two Rs is accurate as long as you accept that AI knows 'what you really mean' and you should have just prompted better.
That drives me mad. "Oh, you don't find AI that useful for developement? You should learn how to talk to it.". Wasn't that the point, that it would understand me?
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The last 5% aren't a nice bonus. They are everything. A 95% self driving car won't do. Giving me random hallucinations when I try to look up important information won't do either even if it just happens 1 out of 20 times. That one time could really screw me so I can't trust it.
Currently AI companies have no idea how to get there yet they sell the promise of it. Next year, bro. Just one more datacenter, bro.
won't do either even if it just happens 1 out of 20 times. That one time could really screw me so I can't trust it.
20 is also the number of times you go to work per month.
Now imagine crashing your car once every month...
I get to ride in lots of different cars as part of my job, and some of the new ones display the current speed limit on the dash. It is incorrect quite regularly. My view is if you can't trust it 100% of the time you can't trust it at all and you might as well turn it off. I feel the same about a.i.
The ADAC in new cars varies so much in implementation. None of it can be trusted (like you said, the sign recognition is iften wrong) but as a backup reminder it can be great. eg: lane centring etc. If it feels like its seizing control from me it can be terrifying. eg: automatic braking out of the blue.
Couple of examples from just this last week: I was on a multi-lane road with a posted 60km/h speed limit, and the car was trying to tell the driver it was 40, and beeped at them whenever they went over it. Another one complained about crossing the centreline marking because we were going around parked cars and there was no choice. Thankfully the car didn't seize control in those situations and just gave an audible warning, but if it had we'd have been in the pooh, especially that second one.
People tell me the hallucinations aren't a big deal because people should fact check everything.
- People aren't fact checking
- If you have to fact check every single thing you're not saving any time over becoming familiar with whatever the real source of info is
My friend told me that one of her former colleagues, wicked smart dude, was talking to her about space. Then he went off about how there were pyramids on Mars. She was like, "oh ... I'm quite caught up on this stuff and I haven't heard of this info. Where can I find this info?" The guy apparently has been having super long chats with whatever LLMand thinks that they're now diving into the "truth" now.
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99% won't do when the consequences of that last 1% are sever.
There's more than one book on the subject, but all the cool kids were waving around their copies of The Black Swan at the end of 2008.
Seems like all the lessons we were supposed to learn about stacking risk behind financial abstractions and allowing business to self-regulate in the name of efficiency have been washed away, like tears in the rain.
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