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“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent (techpolicy.press)

submitted 1 year ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2811405

"We view this moment of hype around generative AI as dangerous. There is a pack mentality in rushing to invest in these tools, while overlooking the fact that they threaten workers and impact consumers by creating lesser quality products and allowing more erroneous outputs. For example, earlier this year America’s National Eating Disorders Association fired helpline workers and attempted to replace them with a chatbot. The bot was then shut down after its responses actively encouraged disordered eating behaviors. "

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The engineers of ChatGPT-4 themselves have stated that it is beginning to show signs of general intelligence. I put a lot more value in their opinion on the subject than a person on the Internet who doesn't work in the field of artificial intelligence.

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It's PR by Microsoft. I am beginning to doubt the intelligence of many humans rather than that of ChatGPT considering these kinds of comments.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That wasn't the engineers of GPT-4, it was Microsoft who have been fanning the hype pretty heavily to recoup their investment and push their own Bing integration and then opened their "study" with:

“We acknowledge that this approach is somewhat subjective and informal, and that it may not satisfy the rigorous standards of scientific evaluation.”

An actual AI researcher (Maarten Sap) regarding this statement:

The ‘Sparks of A.G.I.’ is an example of some of these big companies co-opting the research paper format into P.R. pitches. They literally acknowledge in their paper’s introduction that their approach is subjective and informal and may not satisfy the rigorous standards of scientific evaluation.