Tag: Chatbot
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AI is really annoying – there, there?
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0My homage to two famous cartoons: As I’ve noted elsewhere, verbal (or literary) agility need not be a sign of intelligence. And such fluency can be glib, even annoying. Especially when, as with some people, responses are repetitive, follow predictable patterns – in autopilot mode. So, AI puts us in a similar place. Driven by
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Human welfare needs help – the AI welfare sideshow
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0Tools .. totems … T-factor (thalamocortical network) … consciousness in the circle of life, eh. [1] As mentioned elsewhere, remember that “there’s nobody home” when interacting with gen AI models and chatbots. Despite occasional chatbot psychosis where a user attributes some type of agency, perhaps even a consciousness, to a chatbot. Yet, expert commentary, as
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In AI chatbots we trust – too much
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3Does trust require truth? Facts? With explanations of the speaker’s reasoning & sources? Or just because “(A)I said it’s so” – authoritatively. So, what could go [1] … hardly anyone understands how their smartphone works … (as well as most electronics, eh). Nothing new there for technology … yet, nobody likes to be conned, fooled …
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What’s fair use got to do with it – limits on AI’s hoover up?
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0yeah, what’s fair use about, about for the news?what’s fair use but an old-fashioned notion?what’s fair got to say, got to say about it?who needs copyright when hoovering up is so easy? there’s a case that fitsit’s legalitya court room awaits …criminality? it may seem i’m overreactingwhen you copy out my words …if i’m sounding
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Generative AI sans horse sense – unreliable narrators by design?
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2I like the way that I can do a Google search using a photo – drag & drop it into a search box – to identify its content. I like the way I can extract text from a photo (providing the photo has sufficient resolution on that content). And Amazon uses AI to summarize the gist