AI can hit or miss the bullseye?
If you know how to use AI programs, then you are just increasing the probability (or, reducing the uncertainty) of what is basically a mathematical algorithm.
If you use AI with unconscious incompetence, then beware of fake news and all that comes with it.
For all the right and wrong reasons, headlines can be misleading…
Not surprisingly, there are 2 very different headlines that resulted from the same research paper:
The article from Fortune appeared on my FB news feed. Unfortunately, for me, it was a click bait, in that after 1 click, I found that I can only read the article if I subscribed to the online version of the respected magazine.
Undeterred, I google searched for alternative “free” sources and found the Ars Technica article here…
“No, we haven’t made GPT-4 dumber. Quite the opposite: we make each new version smarter than the previous one. Current hypothesis: When you use it more heavily, you start noticing issues you didn’t see before.”
-OpenAI VP of Product Peter Welinder, July 2023. There have been frequent complaints that GPT-4 has subjectively declined in performance over the past few months
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