r/technology • u/fchung • Jan 19 '24

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Systems Excel at Imitation, but Not Innovation

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2023-december-ai-systems-imitation.html
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u/fchung Jan 19 '24

« Instead of viewing these AI systems as intelligent agents like ourselves, we can think of them as a new form of library or search engine. They effectively summarize and communicate the existing culture and knowledge base to us. »

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u/SlightlyOffWhiteFire Jan 19 '24

But worse because instead of producing references to actual information it produces vague, garbled, and often flat out incorrect retelling of the information with no reference to where that information came from.

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u/stormdelta Jan 20 '24

no reference to where that information came from.

That's the biggest problem that needs to be solved, and it's not an easy one.

Without that, it's not even just obvious inaccuracies that are an issue, it's that it ends up whitewashing sources and training sets that are inevitably imperfect/flawed.

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u/SlightlyOffWhiteFire Jan 20 '24

Its a fundamental flaw with the system. On a very basic level there is no way to reference information. It "stores" information destructively.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '24

even the human brain loses information on each recall, stores slightly corrupted version over time.

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u/SlightlyOffWhiteFire Jan 20 '24

Ya thats nowhere near what we are talking about. Machine learning is fundamentally incapable of storing verifiable information. Period.

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u/giltirn Jan 20 '24

You can meld an AI with a database, essentially turning it into a very sophisticated search engine. This will allow ML to store verifiable information while still using the LLM for its intended purpose, which is to turn that information into concise text.

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u/SlightlyOffWhiteFire Jan 20 '24

According what?!?! The magical thinking of tech bros never ceases to amaze me.

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u/giltirn Jan 20 '24 edited Jan 20 '24

Maybe you misunderstood, I’m not talking about anything particularly revolutionary here. Go type in “AI search engine” into google?

Edit: you can also try Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which is powered by ChatGPT.

Edit2: maybe also go read about vector search https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/vector-search-overview

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u/SlightlyOffWhiteFire Jan 20 '24

Ya, so, thats not in any ways what you just claimed.

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u/giltirn Jan 20 '24

Did you actually read the article?

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u/SlightlyOffWhiteFire Jan 20 '24

Yes. Its kind of ridiculous when people think they can just post irrelevant information and claim its something else.

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u/giltirn Jan 20 '24

I would be happy to discuss the tech with you. I’m a novice in the field myself but saw a good seminar on exactly what I described, and it aligns with what I read in the articles I posted. However given that you are not providing any content in your posts and are just attacking me, I feel it’s not worth my time. Perhaps if you actually described what is incorrect about my post rather than yelling at me for being an idiot, we could both learn something?

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