Just focus on making useful software to improve people’s lives. Holy fuck the last five years feel like such a waste.
But AI will solve everything!
...for our shareholders
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
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#22Manually removing rogue AI results is kind of ironic isn't it?
Pay no attention to the army of people behind the curtain pulling levers trying to make it look like they’ve actually but a real AI.
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#23The fall of Google’s reputation on ML is nothing short of spectacular. They went from having a near untouchable reputation as being far ahead of any other large tech company on ML to total shambles in a year. Everything they’ve released has been a complete popcorn worthy dumpster fire from faked demos, to racist models that try and pretend white people don’t exist, to this latest nonsense telling me put glue on my pi…
It could be because they actually released something. If you look back, the Google Research blog posts always have grandiose claims, but you can often never use them.
Re: Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
#24The fall of Google’s reputation on ML is nothing short of spectacular. They went from having a near untouchable reputation as being far ahead of any other large tech company on ML to total shambles in a year. Everything they’ve released has been a complete popcorn worthy dumpster fire from faked demos, to racist models that try and pretend white people don’t exist, to this latest nonsense telling me put glue on my pi…
It's not really that bad. I use gemini often and it's great. I prefer their UI
Re: Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
#25Manually removing rogue AI results is kind of ironic isn't it?
We need an AI for that
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
But AI will solve everything!
...for our shareholders
I hope AI will bring back the "Sort by date" button on Google Reviews, and add somewhere a Google Maps link.
Who knows, maybe AI can bring back exact keyword matches, or correct basic math calculations on Google Search too.
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#27"Achieving the initial 80 percent is relatively straightforward since it involves approximating a large amount of human data, Marcus said, but the final 20 percent is extremely challenging. In fact, Marcus thinks that last 20 percent might be the hardest thing of all."
100% completely accurate is super-AI-complete. No human can meet that goal either.
No, not even you, dear person reading this. You are wrong about some basic things too. It'll vary from person to person what those are, but it is guaranteed there's something.
So 100% accurate can't be the goal. Obviously the goal is to get the responses to be less obviously stupid. Which, while there are cynical money-oriented business reasons for, it is obviously also a legitimate hole in the I in AI to propose putting glue on pizza to hold the cheese on.
But given my prior observations that LLMs are the current reigning world-class champions at producing good sounding text that seems to slip right past all our system 1 thinking [1], it may not be a great thing to remove the obviously stupid answers. They perform a salutatory task of educating the public about the limitations and giving them memorable hooks to remember not to trust these things. Removing them and only them could be a net negative in a way.
[1]: https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/philosophy/system...
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#28The fall of Google’s reputation on ML is nothing short of spectacular. They went from having a near untouchable reputation as being far ahead of any other large tech company on ML to total shambles in a year. Everything they’ve released has been a complete popcorn worthy dumpster fire from faked demos, to racist models that try and pretend white people don’t exist, to this latest nonsense telling me put glue on my pi…
It could be because they actually released something. If you look back, the Google Research blog posts always have grandiose claims, but you can often never use them.
research != product
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#29“manually remove weird AI answers” is an oxymoron. Sort of like saying “deployed manual drivers to improve self driving performance”
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So Google hasn't used an LLM to generate and test weird queries ? What about simple manual testing? Seems to have skipped QA completely, automated or not.
The adversarial surface to the LLM remains enormous, manual cannot handle it.
Asking how to prevent cheese from sliding off pizza is not an adversarial prompt.