AI – AmericanDelusions

ChatGPT 4 making stuff up, maybe hallucinating

November 19, 2023

Here at 114 Warren, our nearly twenty-year-old Bosch dishwasher has begun to leak water out of the bottom of the door chronically. So, investigations of the gaskets and repairs on the web have led to numerous posts and videos. The symptoms are somewhat mysterious. The leak only appears about 10 --->> read more -->>

Further thoughts on making AI a good neighbor

October 14, 2023

What expectations and constraints should be placed on the development and ongoing deployment of AI systems? If one thinks about how we evaluate the merits of human sources of knowledge, we can see some useful practices that may help us develop expectations and constraints to govern AI and keep it --->> read more -->>

“NO AI SCRAPING without explicit permission from author”

July 16, 2023

I’ve been publishing my research and opinion pieces on the web for over twenty years. Since Fall 2017, here on AmericanDelusions.com. The topics have ranged from family events and local hometown matters to a wide range of topics in economics, capitalism, politics, society, the environment, and more. All of this --->> read more -->>

A lawyer takes ChatGPT to court

June 9, 2023

If you are still enthralled with ChatGPT in its variations and many competitors, here is an amusing story from the NYTimes: “The ChatGPT Lawyer Explains Himself.” The story details the sad, delusional, ignorant story of Steven A. Schwartz, the lawyer who used ChatGPT to write a legal brief in a --->> read more -->>

AI and Social Proof Processes

May 2, 2023

Speaking of AI in 2018, Jason Yosinski said, “To a certain extent, as these networks get more complicated, it is going to be fundamentally difficult to understand why they make decisions,” he said. “It is kind of like trying to understand why humans make decisions.” As the mega-monopolies in the --->> read more -->>

Evaluating ChatGPT & AI Systems – Apply Our Social Skills

April 1, 2023

ChatGPT and its many competitors are now flooding the market. Prognosticators, bloviators and professors are wagging their tongues at top speed full-time. This headline appeared in the NYTimes two days ago, “Elon Musk and Others Call for Pause on A.I., Citing ‘Profound Risks to Society’“. Leaving aside the ironies of --->> read more -->>

Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – recently noted

March 12, 2023

Just when I thought I could put this topic away for a while, I came across this video by John Oliver. As I have noted earlier, it continues to amaze me that some of the best commentaries come from comedians. The little note, nearly at the end, of EU efforts --->> read more -->>

Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT & brethren

March 8, 2023

“Roughly speaking, they take huge amounts of data, search for patterns in it and become increasingly proficient at generating statistically probable outputs — such as seemingly humanlike language and thought.” Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts, and Jeffrey Watumull have weighed in on the ruckus about ChatGPT and its many brethren in the --->> read more -->>

The State of Artificial Intelligence – final comments – for the moment

February 17, 2023

Further on ChatGPT Much has been made of the fact that interest and use of ChatGPT has grown rapidly, even compared to some of the social media giants early history. Further experimentation has not changed my estimate of this facile word smith to be an error-prone mess. As noted in --->> read more -->>

The State of Artificial Intelligence – OpenAI’s ChatGPT

December 17, 2022

ChatGPT has been all over the internet in recent weeks. I have now experimented with it and have some initial thoughts to share. I ran a number of “experiments” to explore what this natural language AI could do. Using the December 15th version of ChatGPT I posed a series of questions. --->> read more -->>