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How do you know any information you get from a source that you can’t personally and independently verify is correct? How do we know a tourist guide book is corr

How do you know any information you get from a source that you can’t personally and independently verify is correct? How do we know a tourist guide book is correct? How do we know our language dictionary is correct? You don’t. People will need to learn to what degree they can actually trust a given source of information and decide how much the risk is worth taking. We do this all the time today, and every time new technology comes along there’s always an adjustment period as we sort out the boundaries of trust (see also people driving off roads and into ponds when GPS was new). The danger to me is not that it can be wrong, it’s that people don’t yet understand it can be wrong. That’s not helped by AI boosters trying to use AI in inappropriate ways and situations, but it’s also not helped by AI doomers that treat every failing of the new technology as proof it’s worthless and will never be useful. Both extremes are speed running a “boy who cried wolf” scenario for losing public trust in what they have to say.

paul7986 2y ago
We all seem to trust Google and the first search result link is the truth (i guess) yet now they are showing their AI results... are we trusting those the same as the first search result links we have always? Personally i think those who are concerned about whether it's correct or not are not ones to jump all into new technology yet will when enough of their friends, family and co-workers have done so. There they find that level of trust they seek. If we have trusted Google all the years then the AI that becomes the most trusted becomes the next Google. Open AI needs to create their own smart devices (phone and or glasses) and with that they could become the next Google. The information GPT provides me seems correct and matches Google's AI. Siri even with 18.1 is still terrible ... just asked it what day is November 9th it forwarded me to a Google search (lame).

paul7986 2y ago

We all seem to trust Google and the first search result link is the truth (i guess) yet now they are showing their AI results... are we trusting those the same as the first search result links we have always? Personally i think those who are concerned about whether it's correct or not are not ones to jump all into new technology yet will when enough of their friends, family and co-workers have done so. There they find that level of trust they seek. If we have trusted Google all the years then the AI that becomes the most trusted becomes the next Google. Open AI needs to create their own smart devices (phone and or glasses) and with that they could become the next Google. The information GPT provides me seems correct and matches Google's AI. Siri even with 18.1 is still terrible ... just asked it what day is November 9th it forwarded me to a Google search (lame).