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Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.

And to help educate the ignorant masses:

Generative AI and LLMs start by predicting the next word in a sequence. The words are generated independently of each other and when optimized simultaneously.

The reason that it used the reporter’s name as the culprit is because out of the names in the sample data his name appeared at or near the top so it was statistically likely to be the next name mentioned.

AI have no concepts, period. It doesn’t know what a person is, or what the laws are. It generates word salad that approximates human statements.

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Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

There are actual science fiction stories built on the premise that AI reporting on the start of Nuclear War resulted in actual kickoff of the apocalypse, and we’re at that corner now.

IIRC, this was the running theory in Fallout until the show.

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- finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I haven’t played the original series but in 3 and 4 it was pretty much confirmed the big companies like BlamCo! intentionally set things in motion.
  
  Ironically, Vault Tech wasn’t planning to ever actually use their vaults for anything except human expirimentation so they might have been out of the loop.
  
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  - Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah, it’s kinda been all over the place, but that’s where the show ended up going. What I’m thinking of, though, was also in Fallout 4. I’ve been thinking on it, and I remember now that what I’m thinking of is that it’s implied that the AI from the Railroad quests fed fake info about incoming missiles to force America to fire. I still don’t remember any specifics, though, and I could be misremembering. It’s been a good few years after all, lol.
    
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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That’s not quite true. Ai’s are not just analyzing the possible next word they are using complex mathematical operations to calculate the next word it’s not just the next one that’s most possible it’s the net one that’s most likely given the input.

No trouble is that the AIs are only as smart as their algorithms and Google’s AI seems to be really goddamn stupid.

Point is they’re not all made equal some of them are actually quite impressive although you are correct none of them are actually intelligent.

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- finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  nOt JUsT anAlYzInG thE NeXT wOrD
  
  Poor use of terms. AI does not analyze. It does not think, or decode, or even parse things. It gets fed sample data and when given a prompt (half a form) it uses statistical algorithm to finish the other half.
  
  All of the algorithms are stupid, they will all hallucinate and say the wrong things. You can add more corrective layers like OpenAI has but you’ll only be closer to the sample data. 95% accurate. 98%. 99%. It doesn’t matter, it’s always stuck just below average human competency for questions already asked countless times, and completely worthless for anything that requires actual independent thought.
  
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NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

AI have no concepts, period. It doesn’t know what a person is, or what the laws are. It generates word salad that approximates human statements.

This isn’t quite accurate. They do semantically group words and have a sort of internal model of concepts and how different words relate to them. It’s still not that of a human and certainly does not “understand” what it’s saying.

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- finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Jfc you dudes really piss me of with these contrarian rants, piss off it takes power and makes sophisticated word salads.
  
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  - NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Oh, my bad, I thought the point of discussion boards was to have a discussion…
    
    If your only goal is to spout misinformation and stick your fingers in your ears, I’ll go somewhere else.
    
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