Comment on Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder

• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Okay but the problem with that is that LLMs not only don’t have any fidelity requirement, they can’t. They are analogous to the language planning centre of your brain, which has to be filtered through your conscious mind to check if they’re talking complete crap.

  People don’t realise this and think the bot is giving them real information, but it’s actually just giving them spookily realistic word-salad, which is a big problem.

  Of course you can fix this if you add some kind of context engine for them to truly grasp the deeper and wider meaning of your query. The problem with that is that if you do that, you’ve basically created an AGI. That may first of all be extremely difficult and far in the future, and second of all it has ethical implications that go beyond how effective of a search engine it is.

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  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t need perfect. I need good enough

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure but if that becomes the norm then a huge segment of the population will believe the first thing the bot tells them. You might be okay, but we’re talking about an entire society filtering its knowledge through an incredibly effective misinformation engine that will lie rather than say “I don’t know”, because that simple phrase shows a level of self-awareness that eludes a lot of actual people, much less a chatbot.

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      • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s already a problem. The thing j think about is what will serve me better. Google or chat AI. The risk of bad information exists with both. But an AI based search engine is something that will be much better at finding context, retiring results geared towards my goals and I suspect less prone to fuckery because AI must be trained as a whole

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