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Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's the inaccurate name everyone's settled on. Kinda like how "sentient" is widely used to mean "sapient" despite being two different things.

[–] Hackworth 9 points 3 days ago

I made a smartass comment earlier comparing AI to fire, but it's really my favorite metaphor for it - and it extends to this issue. Depending on how you define it, fire seems to meet the requirements for being alive. It tends to come up in the same conversations that question whether a virus is alive. I think it's fair to think of LLMs (particularly the current implementations) as intelligent - just in the same way we think of fire or a virus as alive. Having many of the characteristics of it, but being a step removed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

That is an extremely apt parallel!

(I'm stealing it)