Dubious predictions that have yet to be fulfilled have given dubious people like Sam Altman and Elon Musk extraordinary power over society. @carissaveliz
's lecture @
@TEDTalks (which I was lucky enough to see live, and which just came out on YouTube) will open your eyes on the
@garymarcus
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Dubious AI Predictions Give Tech Leaders Excessive Power
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Recurring AI incidents tracked over thousand occurrences
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This has in fact (at various levels) happened more than 1000 times. Check out @DamienCharlotin
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ChatGPT’s Limitations in Culinary Knowledge and Reasoning
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ChatGPT doesn’t know its whisk from its elbow
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AI Image Engine Ethics Controversy Unethical Company Practices
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the system literally promised me a powerful new image engine to try. i am not going to pay money to that unethical company but you are welcome to try my tall tandem w panniers example and post the output here
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ChatGPT’s New Image Engine Shows Limited Understanding Capabilities
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There seems to be some excitement around “ChatGPT’s powerful new image engine”, but as ever, its functional understanding of the world seems limited. I first learned about the new system when some some smart aleck on X sent me an example of the new system trying to label a bike
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Software and Prompt Used to Create This Diagram
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ps which software made this particular diagram? what was the prompt?
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AI Diagram Generation: Impressive Capabilities but Persistent Knowledge Gaps
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Fascinating how AI is getting better at diagrams like these (at least for ones that you could easily find on web search) but still making some pretty wacky errors — like confusing where the rear brake is* — that no knowledgeable human would make. What this reflects is an
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Meta CTO No Opt-Out Policy Raises Privacy Ethics Concerns
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“There is no option to opt out” – Meta’s CTO “There was no option to opt out” – epigraph for life as we knew it?
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Don’t Trust Chatbots for Medical Advice Warns Expert
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Please don’t trust your chatbot for medical advice. Remember how I used to say that large language models are “frequently wrong, never in doubt”, and how I warned three years ago on 60 Minutes that they were purveyors of “authoritative bullshit” that should not be trusted?