It is urgent to educate people about how these systems work. Search requires indexing. Summarizing with a LM requires inference. Data used for inference usually

It is urgent to educate people about how these systems work. Search requires indexing. Summarizing with a LM requires inference. Data used for inference usually is forgotten forever after used, as it is not used for training. Yeah, that should be obvious for many here, but even software engineers believe that AI are sentient things that will remember everything that they see. And that is a problem, because public is afraid of the tech due to a wrong understanding of how it works. Eventually they will demand laws protecting them from stuff that have never existed. Yes, there are social issues with AI. But the article just shows a big tech illiteracy gap.