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Artificial intelligence can sometimes be amazing. I seem to say “that’s cool” a lot when I try various things out. Unfortunately, there’s an old saying in computers: garbage in, garbage out. No matter how slick the programming or how advanced the processors, A.I. will always be limited by human mistakes as well as the enormous amount of inaccurate information fed into it. I see it all the time in writing trivia quizzes for this website. While I’d say the information I get is more often right than wrong, I simply can’t rely on it. When you get down to it, everything in computers boils down to binary choices. In other words, if you can’t program functionality into some kind of mathematical algorithm, it can’t be done.
Machines can’t think the way that humans do. For example, Google A.I. tells me Jeb Stuart served in the military during both the Mexican and Civil War. However, Jeb was just a kid when the Mexican War occurred. A human could look at his age and deduce that he didn’t serve in Mexico, but a computer can only run an if-then analysis, and whatever source that was fed in it said he served, presumably while being potty trained.
Computers can seem to learn, but again, it does this by using math. For example, think about autocorrect and autocomplete on your phone. If you type “ice” plus a space, you’ll likely get a few choices like “cream,” “skating”, or “breaker.” When you click on one, it registers that click in a database as a success, so it’s more likely to use that choice in the future. If you ignore all three choices, it registers the lack of match and takes note of what you do type. It has “learned” correct and incorrect responses, or at least what is more likely to be the right choice in the future according to whatever complex math formula is used. With millions of phones in use, the formulas become more and more accurate over time by pooling all the responses. A.I. uses the same kind of processing when analyzing language. In other words, it analyzes what words are usually used in proximity. For example, if your last sentence contained “Dairy Queen” and you type “ice,” you’re far more likely to be typing “ice cream.” The learning is even user specific. I have a dog named Miles, and when first using my phone it regularly was way off when I typed something about him, thinking I was using the distance measure of miles. After a while, it learned. Now when I type a sentence like “I’m training Miles to bite annoying liberals,” it doesn’t autocomplete to something unrelated.
Of course, the math formulas can be gamed and overriden. You see this constantly in Google search results and auto suggests. They simply accumulate the same kind of stats, but they use a greater multiplier on the sources they believe we should see. That’s why nearly every current event story returns CNN, NY Times, MSNBC, and other liberal sources. I remember several years ago, if you typed “Clinton Body ,” the top suggests would be “count” and “trail.” The stats showed many people were researching the long line of suspicious deaths around the Clintons. However, nowadays you get a bunch of bullshit choices like “Clinton Body Shop of Mississippi,” with no options for the formerly common searches. Yes, I’m sure more people in America are searching for the Body Shop in Mississippi than the Clinton Body Count. 👍 Similarly, every time Fauci gave contradictory Covid advice, such as his mask reversal, the video of him dissing masks was mysteriously near impossible to find. 🤔
As I said, garbage in, garbage out. It doesn’t matter how advanced the tech becomes, A.I. will always be subject to human mistakes and biases. It may save you a lot of time in certain cases, but expect it to have the same weaknesses as anything you’ve worked with in technology.
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