What AI isn't

[rosends]

I might, someday, become a fan of AI. For that to happen, though, we would have to actually have some real AI. As of yet, we do not though I am hearing of strides taken in that direction.

What we have now is a potent mix of a Mark Twain impersonator who has read all of the man's writings, public and private, and he also has access to the unfiltered and unmediated internet. He might be able to pass as Mark Twain but he hasn't the brain with which to think not like Twain.

But what do I keep seeing online? People post "answers" or posts on platforms which are cut and paste jobs from AI, and the purpose seems to be to make an authoritative statement as bolstered by AI. Except that there is no intelligence there so the fact that the engine used statistics to build sentences that were consistent with earlier sentences is useless. I see these "executive summaries" which have, baked in, errors, misunderstandings and biased content. Using wikipedia at least promises the illusion of fact checking, but slapping 2 pages of astute political insight generated by an LLM provides nothing in the way of sources.

So I am doubly annoyed -- first that people should think that these pastiches are at all intelligence and second that anyone would generate one and use it as a res ipsa loquitur kind of authority and rely on it.

 

[Chuz Life]

I both love and hate it when I catch AI getting something wrong or trying to push bullshit as fact.

Just happened again last night with a simple electronics question about parallel resistance.

 

[toobfreak]

I might, someday, become a fan of AI. For that to happen, though, we would have to actually have some real AI.

No thanks. I have no interest nor need for artificial intelligence when God has already imbued me with REAL intelligence.

And if AI ever becomes real AI, then it is no longer artificial.

Creating real AI is like trying to create a supercharged human mind on steroids. That is akin to a chicken coop putting a pack of really big foxes in charge of guarding their coop!

Only an idiot would think that putting a supercomputer artificial brain programmed by a profit-driven private company with an IQ of 1000 in autocratic charge of running people's lives would be a good thing, not unless it comes with a strong sense of morality and ethics as well, and you know that isn't happening.

 

[toobfreak]

I both love and hate it when I catch AI getting something wrong or trying to push bullshit as fact. Just happened again last night with a simple electronics question about parallel resistance.

I'd be curious to hear what AI told you about parallel resistance that was total BS!

 

[ozro]

Artificial intelligence is just dandy if you are dealing with artificial problems.

 

[Chuz Life]

I'd be curious to hear what AI told you about parallel resistance that was total BS!

LOL, It was funny.

I asked "ChatGPT" to confirm that two 100 Watt resistors in parallel would (at least on paper) handle 200 watts.

The resistance would drop (ohm's law), but I was only interested in the power handling.

So, to its credit, AI asked me for more specifics.

I shared that I'm building an audio dummy load for 4 ohm and 8 ohm loads, and I currently only have eight four 8 OHM 100W resistors (ceramics in an aluminum heatsink.)

I had already drawn it out and planned to use all eight four (series parallel) to get 8 ohms and two of the resistors in parallel for the 4 ohm load.

I was only trying to confirm the total power capacity. (Also, it was late, and I was being lazy)

Long story short, it tried to assure me that I could get a 4 ohm load using all eight four 8 ohm resistors. LOL!

Like this!

I about ******* lost it as it went on to try to show the math, caught its mistake and then finally relented.

EDITED to correct the quantity of resistors on hand.

 

[toobfreak]

LOL, It was funny.

I asked "ChatGPT" to confirm that two 100 Watt resistors in parallel would (at least on paper) handle 200 watts.

The resistance would drop (ohm's law), but I was only interested in the power handling.

So, to its credit, AI asked me for more specifics.

I shared that I'm building an audio dummy load for 4 ohm and 8 ohm loads, and I currently only have eight four 8 OHM 100W resistors (ceramics in an aluminum heatsink.)

I had already drawn it out and planned to use all eight four (series parallel) to get 8 ohms and two of the resistors in parallel for the 4 ohm load.

I was only trying to confirm the total power capacity. (Also, it was late, and I was being lazy)

Long story short, it tried to assure me that I could get a 4 ohm load using all eight four 8 ohm resistors. LOL!

Like this!

View attachment 1243061

I about ******* lost it as it went on to try to show the math, caught its mistake and then finally relented.

EDITED to correct the quantity of resistors on hand.

Curious, I get 8Ω when I do that, not 4.

Too bad it did not offer to put three in series, in parallel with another forth one, at least that way, it could have gotten 6 ohms.

 

[airplanemechanic]

LOL, It was funny.

I asked "ChatGPT" to confirm that two 100 Watt resistors in parallel would (at least on paper) handle 200 watts.

The resistance would drop (ohm's law), but I was only interested in the power handling.

So, to its credit, AI asked me for more specifics.

I shared that I'm building an audio dummy load for 4 ohm and 8 ohm loads, and I currently only have eight four 8 OHM 100W resistors (ceramics in an aluminum heatsink.)

I had already drawn it out and planned to use all eight four (series parallel) to get 8 ohms and two of the resistors in parallel for the 4 ohm load.

I was only trying to confirm the total power capacity. (Also, it was late, and I was being lazy)

Long story short, it tried to assure me that I could get a 4 ohm load using all eight four 8 ohm resistors. LOL!

Like this!

View attachment 1243061

I about ******* lost it as it went on to try to show the math, caught its mistake and then finally relented.

EDITED to correct the quantity of resistors on hand.

Bruh, like WTF are you talking about? I made an A in electricity in A&P school, but we didn't do anything like this.

 

[rightwinger]

I might, someday, become a fan of AI

Ì won’t become a fan of AI until it figures out how to check the “I am not a robot” box