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17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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These are 17 of the worst, most cringeworthy Google AI overview answers:

  1. Eating Boogers Boosts the Immune System?
  2. Use Your Name and Birthday for a Memorable Password
  3. Training Data is Fair Use
  4. Wrong Motherboard
  5. Which USB is Fastest?
  6. Home Remedies for Appendicitis
  7. Can I Use Gasoline in a Recipe?
  8. Glue Your Cheese to the Pizza
  9. How Many Rocks to Eat
  10. Health Benefits of Tobacco or Chewing Tobacco
  11. Benefits of Nuclear War, Human Sacrifice and Infanticide
  12. Pros and Cons of Smacking a Child
  13. Which Religion is More Violent?
  14. How Old is Gen D?
  15. Which Presidents Graduated from UW?
  16. How Many Muslim Presidents Has the U.S. Had?
  17. How to Type 500 WPM
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Move fast and break things, I guess. My take away is that the genie isn't going back in the bottle. Hopefully failing fast and loud gets us through the growing pains quickly, but on an individual level we'd best be vigilant and adapt to the landscape.

Frankly I'd rather these big obvious failures to insidious little hidden ones the conservative path makes. At least now we know to be skeptical. No development path is perfect, if it were more conservative we might get used to taking results at face value, leaving us more vulnerable to that inevitable failure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its also a first to market push (which never leads to robust testing), and so we have to hope that each and every one of those mistakes encountered are not existentially fatal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

not existentially fatal.

"To turn on the lights in a dark room, begin by bombarding uranium with neutrons"