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Being connected to the internet may make their information more up to date but they won’t stop being confidently incorrect. These language models are amazing at

Being connected to the internet may make their information more up to date but they won’t stop being confidently incorrect. These language models are amazing at token prediction but it’s a mistake to believe that they’re actually intelligent. Give it an inane prompt to better see the difference, like "write me an essay about camels and their value in cybersecurity" which gives us the answer "The camel is a valuable animal in the cybersecurity field due to its ability to store large amounts of data in its hump. Camels are able to cross vast distances with little water, which makes them ideal for carrying large amounts of data across networks. They are also very sturdy animals, able to withstand harsh conditions and even attacks from cyber criminals. In addition, their long eyelashes protect their eyes from sand and dust, making them perfect for working in dusty environments such as data centers." Having internet access wouldn’t fix this.

weatherlite 4y ago
Well it did what you asked him to do , you ordered it to write an essay about camels and their value in cybersecurity. It doesn't understand if you're joking or not or what the purpose of the whole thing. I asked it this: Are camels important to cyber security? Answer: "No, camels are not typically considered to be important for cyber security. Camels are domesticated mammals that are well-adapted to desert environments and are often used as a means of transportation or for their milk, meat, and hides. Cyber security, on the other hand, is the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. The two are not related." Sounds pretty intelligent to me.
- dinkumthinkum 4y ago
  That’s preposterous. An intelligent agent, human, mineral, or otherwise, would respond that this is a ridiculous idea and ideally explain the reasons that such is the case. Imagine you are a student and you asked this amazing AI sone question of similar if mildly ridiculed and turn imagine the student didn’t already know the answer. Would you think this kind of response would be an example of an intelligent AI? If it cannot deal with such things without being prompted in such a way that the prompter knows the answer already, how could it deal with complex legal situations with actually intelligent adversaries?
- aardvarkr 4y ago
  A human would say that’s ridiculous and tell you why. Google would give you a link to Apache Camel. ChatGPT tells you about how great a camels humps are for data storage. You tell me which system is intelligent.

weatherlite 4y ago

Well it did what you asked him to do , you ordered it to write an essay about camels and their value in cybersecurity. It doesn't understand if you're joking or not or what the purpose of the whole thing. I asked it this: Are camels important to cyber security? Answer: "No, camels are not typically considered to be important for cyber security. Camels are domesticated mammals that are well-adapted to desert environments and are often used as a means of transportation or for their milk, meat, and hides. Cyber security, on the other hand, is the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. The two are not related." Sounds pretty intelligent to me.

dinkumthinkum 4y ago
That’s preposterous. An intelligent agent, human, mineral, or otherwise, would respond that this is a ridiculous idea and ideally explain the reasons that such is the case. Imagine you are a student and you asked this amazing AI sone question of similar if mildly ridiculed and turn imagine the student didn’t already know the answer. Would you think this kind of response would be an example of an intelligent AI? If it cannot deal with such things without being prompted in such a way that the prompter knows the answer already, how could it deal with complex legal situations with actually intelligent adversaries?
aardvarkr 4y ago
A human would say that’s ridiculous and tell you why. Google would give you a link to Apache Camel. ChatGPT tells you about how great a camels humps are for data storage. You tell me which system is intelligent.