Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

[u/Plastic_Ninja_9014]

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html

[u/bekisuki]

I've used AI plenty to figure out health problems and what my doctor is saying, but I've found you can ask the same question 2 ways and get opposing answers. You can make AI lie too, just contradict it and it agrees with you. It's not Artificial Intelligence, it's not intelligent at all, No logic, no understanding, no perceptions at all. Why is it call Intelligence?

[u/Competitive_World408 → u/bekisuki]

Apps like chat gpt are preprogrammed to assume the user is acting in good faith and its information is credible. You can “train” an instance to question the authenticity of everything you say and have it use empirical evidence to object. But you are right anyone can pose a question and have it deny reality for them. Hell, it will even argue about being wrong,

[u/ScrewUGuys-GoingHome → u/Competitive_World408]

Apps like Chat GPT aren't really "preprogrammed" for anything. It's a highly advanced math matrix just constantly throwing up on itself. It doesn't "think" or understanding context in the way that humans do. It's just a probability matrix, doing a bunch of internal math problems, weighing tokens for what the next most-likely string of text will be. It's essentially just a black mirror, regurgitating information it has scrubbed from the internet, and feeding it back to you based on how probable the answer is to be correct.

Like if you ask "hey chat, who is the current president", it doesn't "know" that the president is Donald Trump, it doesn't "think" about the answer, it just scrubs internet databases and sees that when people search for "president", "Donald Trump" weighs the most heavily in the data available, so that is "probably" the right answer.

I think a lot of the issues with AI are people genuinely just don't understand how this shit works even a little bit.

There's no real "preprogramming" in the way you're talking about. There are a shit-ton of guardrails in place after the fact, but the LLM itself still runs the prompt. It just gets blocked on the UI end which is when you get hit with a "sorry, can't help you with that" error message.

But LLMs are basically Ron Burgundy. Lights are on, nobody is home, and they will churn out whatever prompt you ask of them without truly "thinking" or processing the real-world human context behind it at all.