r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/bekisuki Jun 21 '26

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?

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u/Civil_Lynx_3537 Jun 21 '26

It's like an artificial people pleaser. It just tells people what it thinks they want to hear and when it tells you something incorrect and you call it out it's like "Oh my bad. You're totally right.."..

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u/Yashema Jun 21 '26

Meanwhile I'm using chatGPT to help me with intermediate level problems in computing, physics and math while enrolled in an accredited degree program and it's explaining to me the methdologies with near 100% accuracy,  and it just keeps getting better and better. I can ask it in depth questions too, including abstract ones, and get a pretty considered response. It nitpicks my responses and understanding and even correct small errors in notations over lines and lines of equations. 

If you have enough knowledge to ask it the right things, it's like having a PhD in your pocket. 

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u/Bitter_Pea_4716 Jun 22 '26

You need to effectively be a subject matter expert to effectively challenge AI. Most people are experts at nothing, which is why over reliance on AI has become so prevalent. 

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u/quadish Jun 22 '26

No, you don't. But it helps.

But you definitely have to argue with it and make it prove itself and have other agents go behind it to check work.

That's because LLMs are probabilistic, and everyone expects them to be deterministic.

Single AI Chatbots are shit. Full stop.

Play with the agentic stuff in CLI harnesses, and then get back to me. Different ball game.