Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoHumans hallucinate. These things extrapolate tokens statistically. In average his tone of requests would be likely to lead to some murder story.
Nothing is wrong with the tech (except it doesn’t seem very useful when you firmly know what it can’t do), but everything is wrong with that tech being called artificial intelligence.
It’s almost like calling polygraph “lies detector”.
I know I’ve hate the fact that we’ve settled on the word Hallucinate It anthropomorphizes something that absolutely isn’t intelligent.
It’s not capable of thinking a particular piece of information is true when it isn’t, because it isn’t capable of thinking about information in general.
theparadox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I replied to the following statement:
I countered this dismissal by quoting the article, which explains that it was more than just a coincidental name mix up.
You response is not really relevant to my response, unless you are assuming I’m arguing for one side or the other. I’m just informing someone who dismissed the article’s headline using an explanation that demonstrated that they didn’t bother to read the article.
If the owners of the technology call it artificial intelligence and hype or sell it as a potential replacement for intelligent human decision making then it should be absolutely be judged on those grounds.