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Meta AI claims to have a child in a NYC public school
- paxys 2y agoOk, and?
- beepboopboop 2y agoYou’re not worried about the child’s well-being? Monster.
- mgsouth 2y agoWell, at least the kid can get a meal at school; sure not getting anything at home.
- greenish_shores 2y agoIf that's a child of an "AI", I'm not sure does they even need "food" in form of carbohydrates, fats and proteins (or amino acids) that humans need. Electricity is all they need, probably. Or maybe even directly it's light, if they're an optical computing device. Or if you purely regard them as a software thing, computing power is all they need. Much lesser needs of dwelling space, too.
- tanseydavid 2y agoThe kid could not make the cut for private school, so...
- nxobject 2y agoAt this point, the reputational risk that one malfunctioning generative AI has on _all_ generative AI is concerning.
- noobermin 2y agoThe reason this occurs as a narrative is because hallucination is a widespread issue with LLMs, and thus can be fairly generalised across most deployments of them.
- tiptup300 2y agoTalking to some disconnected sets of people who are much more layman and not computer users, when I speak of some cool new AI app, they look at me with eyes of perversion and somewhat disgust with fear. The way the information has been coming out and sold of ai to pump up stock prices is to the detriment of public opinion. Curious to see how things go.
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- redeeman 2y agohow about everyone stop calling it AI when it very clearly is little more "intelligent" than "intelligent device for starting your heater when it gets cold" (aka thermostat) (and yes, this has really been marketed)
- jbernsteiniv 2y agoIt's been co-opted into the phrase "AI" in the same vein that "cloud" was used in "Cloud Computing". It's a marketing term to make the technology more appealing. That's why half the people started using the term "AGI" and even with that we see the tech companies leveraging the hype the marketing teams are bringing in while selling the illusion that building a computer smarter than a human brain (something we still barely understand) is feasible in our lifetimes or ever. (sorry I am just venting my annoyance with it too, I don't mean for this to come off as hostile if it does!)
- Terr_ 2y agoAlso the nanotechnology blockchain gig economy for self-driving cats. At least "E-Commerce" turned out to be real, eventually.
- water-data-dude 2y agoI’ve given up on correcting people. “AI” has been erroneously used to describe LLMs enough that it’s in most peoples’ heads as the correct usage. Language changes over time, and even if we’re “right” about the term AI being incorrectly applied here, we don’t get to make choices about how language is used - it’s its own beast and it obeys its own laws. The makers of Velcro (brand name) would love for people to use “hook and loop fasteners” when referring to velcro (generic), but once enough people are using a term you might as well try to fight the tide.
- theendisney 2y agoThat would be called a feedback mechanism?
- moomoo11 2y agoAnd that child’s name? dell-32a7iZ
- justinclift 2y agoIt'd be funnier if that was a valid Dell service tag. ;)
- schiffern 2y ago"Meta AI claims" No it doesn't. It can't. Only people (or companies, which require people) can meaningfully "claim" things. LLMs are still not people, despite our persistent attempts to personify them. This is merely a sexier headline than "Hallucination machine hallucinates." And even that word personifies a bit too much!
- swatcoder 2y agoYou're right in a purist sense, but the alternative headline would be "Meta is already carelessly allowing hallucination machine to hallucinate in troubling places and with troubling amplification by their content placement algorithm" It's definitely a vivid example of Meta being irresponsible with the tech today and of what we can expect a lot of the internet to be polluted with in the future.
- davekeck 2y agoWhat verbiage would you deem acceptable, if "claims" and "hallucinates" are both out?
- tpmoney 2y ago“Weighted random text generator generates random text that doesn’t make logical sense” maybe. Seems to be both accurate and better describes what’s actually going on. The AI can’t claim or hallucinate anything because that requires it to have core beliefs and senses that can be fooled by incorrect inputs.
- schiffern 2y agoIt's right in the most famous system's name: "Generative Pre-trained Transformer". LLMs generate text (and other media) which imitates their pre-training corpus. That's all. At the end of the day, it's turning a mathematical crank. LLMs have no more intentionality than a jack-in-the-box.
- nicklecompte 2y agoI understand your point but I think it's misplaced here. This kind of criticism made sense with the Bing/Sydney stuff, since "Bing claims to be self-aware" is misleading compared to "Bing inconsistently recites some sci-fi cliches." People like Kevin Roose were actively spreading misconceptions about how LLMs work. It would have been nice if they had taken your comment seriously in 2023. But this is different. The subtext of the headline is clearly "Facebook's dumb chatbot had a very dumb glitch." I believe laypeople would immediately understand the AI is just plagiarizing a Facebook mom. Policing the language here seems more about pedantry than correcting actual misconceptions. (You might say that some people would read this headline and jump to a Her fantasy, where Meta's poor AI is desperate for human connection or whatever. But these people are not going to be swayed by technical accuracy. They will just interpret language like yours as euphemism and denial.)
- waldrews 2y agoThe problem here isn't that an LLM hallucinates. The problem is that nobody asked for an AI response, and Meta pushed content to a forum that makes such claims, which could easily mislead or at least confuse people not sophisticated enough to be on the lookout for hallucinations. Meta should be (and is) in the business of policing third-party spam on their forums that does exactly this. We can infer what must've happened - the model must've been fine-tuned on forum comments, and this would be the likely format for a response to that question. This sort of thing should've been caught by a wrapper/guard model, and will probably make a good case to add to such a model's instructions/training. (btw: is it "an LLM" or "a LLM"? I guess I should ask an LLM which it prefers to be called)
- keehun 2y agoIn regards to your last question, it’s “an LLM”. The distinction between using “a” vs “an” is one based on the immediately proceeding syllable sound rather than the letter. If it’s proceeded by a vowel, then use “an”, and if it’s proceeded by a consonant, use “a”. Because “LLM” is pronounced “el el em”, the first syllable sound is “eh”—a vowel. The same letter may need different “a”/“an” article based on how the word is pronounced. For example “an LLM” vs “a layer”. See this for someone smarter than me explain it: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-a-or-an https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-a-or-an
- greenish_shores 2y agoAs someone with a photographic memory as my main (because it's most the "performant" one I have) learning tool, I strongly feel that somebody should make a really long list of most commonly used words which should use "an", and conversely, a list of words which should use "a" of a similar length (both as two columns of text). I'm not really eager to "run" the check (mentioned under the link) in my head every time I need to choose an article, and the biggest problem, and the reason behind some of the mistakes in choosing the right article I sometimes do, is that I don't really see some the less common words which should use "an" (despite starting with a letter which suggest otherwise) this often, or actually, often enough. And when I'm reading a text for any other purpose than memorizing article choices (so, 99,999% of cases), they don't get enough of my attention to get remembered - it's the meaning of other words which get it, and big part of which will get remembered, not the articles used before them. Being able to look on such a list every few days for say, a month, would definitely help to remember most of these cases.
- tiahura 2y agoIt’s not AI it’s an llm. Word frequency autocomplete on steroids.
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- andrewstuart 2y agoI’d be skeptical of a claim like this.
- theendisney 2y agoBut how to prove its not true?
- sn0n 2y agoAs someone who has seen "person of interest",... I believe it.
- RecycledEle 2y agoLLMs are Internet simulators. That is a simulation of a good response you would get on the Internet. Is anyone still surprised by this? If so, let me repeat: LLMs are Internet simulators. They will give you simulations of good replies you might get on the Internet.