Where Memory Ends and Generative AI Begins

[GratefulCitizen]

This is the most recent thread I could find on AI.

Been playing with Grok2 for a bit.
AI appears to be just another tool to simplify and make certain actions more intuitive.

Programming gradually became more intuitive (and less efficient).
Operating systems gradually became more intuitive (and less efficient).

This appears to be an extrapolation of that trend.
But AI is certainly not capable of anything that resembles thinking.

It still may replace a great many workers, though.
Most jobs don’t actually require much thinking.

Basically, it’s just a very advanced form of search engine.
It can also run some relatively simple programming tasks, given proper instruction AND ACCURATE DATA.

That is the Achilles heel.
It can’t tell what accurate data is.

If you already know the subject area well, you can tell that AI is just talking out its ass half the time.
If you don’t know the subject area well…

GIGO.
Can’t tell if AI will be useful, because it just pulls data off the internet without being able to judge the veracity.

AI is effectively just another clown running its mouth on the internet.
But you can’t really trust me, either…I’m just another clown running my mouth on the internet.

If you want to see for yourself, do a deep dive asking it to assemble data about a subject where you have some expertise (ideally an obscure interest).
You’ll see how it is lacking.

YMMV.