The biggest mistake we've made is to use the word "intelligence" to describe what are basically large-scale pattern-recognition and -reproduction tools. And from there, all the anthropomorphic language describing them grows, but also suggests they do more than what they're designed to do.
Yep. This is problem. The use that word instead of accuracy or efficiency.
hAllUciNAtIOnS
What is "intelligence"? Because I remember taking a test called the Raven Test to prove I was smart enough for a magnet program.
Thank you, you know before if you use the words AI it meant something. Now the taxonomic weaknesses are on full display.
It’s Artificial Incompetence.
I will never not repost this piece when this discussion hits my feed: "Anthropomorphising concepts such as using 'hallucination' as a term help dismiss the fact that statistical responses are completely disconnected from meaning and facts." softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
bsky.app/profile/did:... This was in a reply to a news story about LLMs in school/offices.
Right--what the AI evangelicals are selling is the holographic doctor from ST: Voyager, but they can't deliver anything but a hallucination.
We're told the future is AI, the use of LLMs in every context from education to health care to business is inevitable, that the extant problems will be fixed in the next release (always coming, never arrived). It's gaslighting.