Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
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Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#2I guess for a sufficiently loose definition of tourist it's not wrong.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#3I have started coming across articles that seem legitimate except for bizarre patois used in the subheadings specifically: "How Long Be The Game?" "What Mean By Corner Kick?" which I'm assuming as an AI summarization artefact
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#4That sounds like a surprisingly fortunate mistake, because you would hope recommending others to go to a food bank will encourage (and actually make some of) them to give something to the needy there.
The suggestion the AI makes to consider going into it on an empty stomach could help the tourist to empathise with others who are less fortunate, because those are people who feel hungry every day. (Although the suggestion does sound unfortunate on first impression.)
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#5Did they automatically detect that it became very popular as it had many people visiting it regularly?
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#6I have started coming across articles that seem legitimate except for bizarre patois used in the subheadings specifically: "How Long Be The Game?" "What Mean By Corner Kick?" which I'm assuming as an AI summarization artefact
Maybe they are using Top 90s European Dance Hits lyrics generator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-OgkNgxm3k
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#7That sounds like a surprisingly fortunate mistake, because you would hope recommending others to go to a food bank will encourage (and actually make some of) them to give something to the needy there. The suggestion the AI makes to consider going into it on an empty stomach could help the tourist to empathise with others who are less fortunate, because those are people who feel hungry every day. (Although the suggest…
You're reading too much into it, and seeing empathy from a language model where there's none.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#8That sounds like a surprisingly fortunate mistake, because you would hope recommending others to go to a food bank will encourage (and actually make some of) them to give something to the needy there. The suggestion the AI makes to consider going into it on an empty stomach could help the tourist to empathise with others who are less fortunate, because those are people who feel hungry every day. (Although the suggest…
You're reading too much into it, and seeing empathy from a language model where there's none.
I don't see where in his comment he implied that the model has empathy.
The model proposed to do something to empathize with X, but that doesn't imply that he commenter is seeing empathy from the model.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#9The article mentions Paris Marx, who runs a podcast called Tech Won't Save Us. I doubt most people here would particularly enjoy listening to it, but might find it interesting to hear from strong critics of the tech industry. Sometimes they raise good points.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#10That sounds like a surprisingly fortunate mistake, because you would hope recommending others to go to a food bank will encourage (and actually make some of) them to give something to the needy there. The suggestion the AI makes to consider going into it on an empty stomach could help the tourist to empathise with others who are less fortunate, because those are people who feel hungry every day. (Although the suggest…
You're reading too much into it, and seeing empathy from a language model where there's none.
> seeing empathy from a language model
I think you misread the message above