Flat Earth/Round Earth

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dask said:
I was thinking about paranoid marvin’s comment “integration before assimilation” (post #10). Is this why the Copilot AI got it so wrong about being able to see the curvature of the earth at sea level when evidence overwhelmingly proves otherwise? When posed with a question does AI search both legitimate and not so legitimate sources for what it perceives as pertinent information, then shuffle it together like a deck of cards dealing a hand which may or may not be a winner?
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AI gets information from online discussion. Normal people don't discuss whether the world is flat or not.
 
So AI gets its information from commonly held views, rather than logical fact? And how does it determine who is 'normal' and who is not?

In the world of 1984, would AI inform us that 2+2=3?
 
paranoid marvin said:
So AI gets its information from commonly held views, rather than logical fact? And how does it determine who is 'normal' and who is not?

In the world of 1984, would AI inform us that 2+2=3?
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Yes. AI is not biased toward "truth", it doesn't know what that is. It is a system that compares conversations about the topic and aggregates an answer.

Which is one of the many reasons we should be beside ourselves with fear.
 
Swank said:
Yes. AI is not biased toward "truth", it doesn't know what that is. It is a system that compares conversations about the topic and aggregates an answer.

Which is one of the many reasons we should be beside ourselves with fear.
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There was a forum post I read years ago that was a cumulation of screenshots of articles and forum posts where groups of people were completely wrong about things but supremely confident. One of them was this post about smartphones being a total waste of time and that the industry would never recover from such a silly investment. The comments were in total agreement "It'll never work! Imagine how glitchy the touchscreens will be!" lol

It was a giant echo chamber of nonsense, and many of those people probably weren't stupid, but easily influenced by the majority.
 
RDArmstrong said:
There was a forum post I read years ago that was a cumulation of screenshots of articles and forum posts where groups of people were completely wrong about things but supremely confident. One of them was this post about smartphones being a total waste of time and that the industry would never recover from such a silly investment. The comments were in total agreement "It'll never work! Imagine how glitchy the touchscreens will be!" lol

It was a giant echo chamber of nonsense, and many of those people probably weren't stupid, but easily influenced by the majority.
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This was the case every night back before the internet. Just wanting to know the score of the 1983 FA Cup final could be event in itself. One person could usually be relied on for theor fountain of knowledge/useless information, which is probably where the phrase 'man in the pub' comes from.
 
This has strayed a long way from the original Flat Earth/Round Earth discussion. If anyone has anything to add, on that subject, please continue - if not, the thread will probably be closed.
There are at least half-a-dozen threads on AI out there - please have a look to see if they would be better for AI discussion than this one.

Thanks.
 
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