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Axel <none@not.here> wrote:
> Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> This seems to be the fact some people here can't get their head
>> around:
>>
>> "This shouldn't come as a surprise. After all, "AI" tools have no
>>   understanding, no intelligence, no context, and they can't actually
>>   make sense of anything. They are glorified pachinko machines with
>>   the output - the ball - tumbling down the most likely path between
>>   the pins based on nothing but chance and which pins it has already
>>   hit. "AI" output understands the world about as much as the
>>   pachinko ball does, and as such, can't pick up on even the most
>>   obvious of cues that something is a fake or a forgery."
> 
> interesting. but if they can't 'think' how do/can they write essays?

Same as everything: Model the language structure of essays found on
the web then reformat text believed relevent to the topic according
to that model. This is the basis of the Large Language Models. Real
AI is what's now being called "Artificial General Intelligence",
the LLMs are a shortcut method that doesn't bother with
understanding things but figures out how words go together in
relevent ways, without regard to whether the words they're
rearrangeing are completely irrelevent or in this case obviously
nonsensical. Hence the convincing BS it shovels onto you when it
hasn't found the equivalent of good search results and reformats
words from irrelevent texts instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_General_Intelligence

AI generated images of people missing fingers are another example -
it doesn't know what a finger is, and the model is built on example
images where fingers are sometimes visible and sometimes not, so it
follows a model of similar visual characteristics and produces
something obviously wrong.

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