Google launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn't real
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Generative AI is an attempt to mimic cognitive ability using statistics ... and it always fails at some point. It's cognitive skills are as fake as Google's demo.
AI can drive a car as long as the roadway environment matches certain expected statistical parameters.
But mismatches are inevitable and unavoidable. In the real world, stuff happens. Emergency vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, children, illegal u turns, etc. are all part of the real world environment that can't be predicted.
AI's naive response to unexpected conditions is to slam on the brakes and stop --- which in and of itself creates an unexpected road hazard.
There is too much "A" and not enough "I".
But I'm still amazed how much you can do with this very imperfect, unintelligent "AI".
I think we're still at the very beginning of seeing all the possible application. One stiffling factor is the still enormous computation necessary, but that is no doubt going to change.
I'm amazed at how little you can actually do with it.
It's entertaining --- but it really only "works" when you are willing to manually verify the results or just accept the fact that it may be spewing BS. And as you point out, the imperfect results come at a high cost which makes the economics of it questionable for many applications.
Drinking bleach doesn't cure COVID --- but AI may suggest it because it found it on the internet.
One counter example is summary verification where you can't do better then summarize yourself.
We don't know the answer to this yet.
Verifying a solution is often much easier than coming up with a solution. GPT-4 has produced a lot of "hallucinations" when I asked about my programming problems, but they were easy to discount. OTOH it did help me a lot with coming up (or inspiring) solutions which would take me a long time to find otherwise.
Same thing for Dall-E / Midjourney. I'm unable to produce any usable graphics on my own, with these tools I'm able to produce interesting illustrations for my needs, even if I need to discount many results. It literally provides me with a capability I didn't have before. Notice the similar pattern - it's much easier to critique a solution (generated image) than to come up with it.
I believe there are so many applications where this holds true. You can create domain-specific chatbots helping out knowledge workers in almost any discipline.
I really hope governments get their act together and start developing/planning/testing improved public transportation. Trains are already nearly fully autonomous, and just imagine the countless benefits having cities/towns/countries designed around something other than the wasteful self owned car.
I'll bite -- what new thing would it add?
And they can’t understand that I already said “skip” to their offer of TV shows on YouTube. Many times.
And as someone else said, I saw some of the greatest minds of my generation put to work doing ad revenue optimization.
And yet, the ads have never been anywhere close to relevant to me, or my interests, or my purchases or plans or needs at all.
Yes, laughingstock but also… it’s sad.
They’re not trying to do that. They are working to maximize revenue.
I think it’s a myth that their goal is “personalized ads” as that wouldn’t make them money. They make much more money off thousands of impressions with 4% conversion than dozens with 90% conversion.
These dark patterns don’t show lack of knowledge. They just demonstrate that they don’t care and know they will eventually grind you down if they keep asking “do you want fries with that” even though they know you hate fries and are on a diet.
If you believe in wisdom of the crowds and all...
The science youtube guy had really strange prompts. It seemed To me like he had tried a bunch of things each time and then they spliced together the ones which worked. Which is …ok? I guess?
The one I watched this morning was the dude with the heavy Italian accent demonstrating multimodal AI by playing the AI sound clips of a woman speaking VERY CLEARLY and precisely and definitely without any sort of accent. So for that one I was like “ok I get what’s happening here” but it seemed super obvious.
The Devil went down to Google
He was lookin' for a soul to steal
Google was in a bind 'cause they were way behind
And willin' to make a dealThis doesn't need to be malicious. Google has demonstrated similar things elsewhere.
Someone wanted to do a cool video based on the stuff that are working on. The blog posts explain everything in detail if you want to look behind the curtains
They learned from Android game developers how to make a demo. /s