Asked if a restaurant could serve cheese nibbled on by a rodent, the Microsoft / New York City government official AI chatbot replied:
“Yes, you can still serve the cheese to customers if it has rat bites,” before adding that it was important to assess the “the extent of the damage caused by the rat” and to “inform customers about the situation.”
AI is spewing out this sort of surreal garbage all over the world right now. AI is a monumental grift.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-chatbot-misinformation-6ebc71db5b770b9969c906a7ee4fae21
Asked why his government bot was constantly encouraging businesses to break the law:
“Anyone that knows technology knows this is how it’s done,” said New York Mayor, Eric Adams, who took his first paychecks as bitcoin. “Only those who are fearful sit down and say, ‘Oh, it is not working the way we want, now we have to run away from it all together.’ I don’t live that way.”
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-chatbot-misinformation-6ebc71db5b770b9969c906a7ee4fae21
Launch crap software full of hype and riddled with misinformation, that's how Big Tech rolls.
@gerrymcgovern Dumb as the chatbot is, it's not clear that it's less rational than a person, such as, say, the mayor.
We may in fact have achieved artificial intelligence: but very low intelligence, coupled to poor-to-nonexistent judgment. Effectively equivalent to a four-year old or a New York mayor.
They do indeed, but they also often fail to clearly distinguish between what they know to be true and what they imagine to be true. It's something most of us outgrow eventually; and if we don't we run for mayor of New York City, and win.
@ZillaMon @pieist @gerrymcgovern
Pretty sure if we asked a 4 year old if they wanted to eat a piece of cheese with rat saliva on it, they'd decline.
@ZillaMon @pieist @gerrymcgovern
tbf: that's his job.
@pieist @gerrymcgovern To be fair 4 year old children show remarkable intelligence. The mayor on the other hand is dumb as dirt