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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

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Post by zogrodea »

sph wrote: post #7
zogrodea wrote: post #4

That 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.

Aplogies for the lack of clarity on my part. The other two sibling comments are right about what I meant.

I don't think a language model has empathy, but I think this suggestion can be good for the potential real-world consequences it may have and, if its suggestions are acted on, that might inspire empathy from the actors.

I think you're right that my interpretation/hope about the consequences are unlikely though.

Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot

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Post by defrost »

rasz wrote: post #6
carrolldunham wrote: post #3

I 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

+1 parody, appreciated.

What a difference a decade earlier makes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9lObWclFQ

Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot

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Post by ngcazz »

beefpies wrote: post #9

The 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. https://www.techwontsave.us/

To piggyback on this suggestion, I'd also recommend This Machine Kills

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Post by 38 »

zogrodea wrote: post #4

That 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…

the suggestion is terrible, full stop. it would be akin to someone standing outside a movie theater yelling at people because they should be spending their time fighting world hunger.

sure, they might be right, but its kind of missing the point.

Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot

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Post by notahacker »

carrolldunham wrote: post #3

I 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

Tbf, those headlines looks more like content generated or organised by English as a Second Language speakers, because one thing latest generation AI is particularly good at is following the conventions of English grammar, and when it fails it's normally a spectacular failure rather than missing articles or incorrectly conjugated verbs.

(if the writing is coherent, it's possible AI is doing the writing and ESL writers the prompting and stitching together...)

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