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> suggests that the solicitous, authoritative tone that AI models take—combined with them being legitimately helpful and correct in many cases—could lead people
by tbrownaw 2y ago
> suggests that the solicitous, authoritative tone that AI models take—combined with them being legitimately helpful and correct in many cases—could lead people to place too much trust in the technology.
Haven't there been reports lately that people don't trust the news? I'd think that the search engines' AI models would suffer the same fate given similar levels of accuracy.
> No one person, or even government, can tamper with every link displayed by Google or Bing.
Well, Google or Bing can.
- __loam 2y agoYeah you'll get people ranting about gell-mann amnesia while uncritically ignoring good reporting.
- flessner 2y agoThere's a difference between reading the news and chatting with an AI - evident because of the verbs. While news are one-sided and usually have no immediate ways of discussing them (besides maybe Reddit and HN). Chatbots on the other hand are a correspondence, which makes them more like a discussion or interview... they seem more approachable (human?) Platforms like c.ai push this to the extreme. While AI relationships seem dystopian right now, I fear they are already creeping up on us - forming beliefs even stronger than news can. ... Google and Microsoft are big in AI, so it's not even a change in "leadership" anyway.
- Terr_ 2y agoThe same text predictors can make articles though. The underlying algorithm is agnostic to the difference most probably have training data to cover both formats.