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William Seger

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15. That's exactly the kind of thing AI doesn't do well

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat May 31, 2025, 12:08 PM

May 31

AI bots are so good at imitating how humans talk that it's easy to forget that they have NO ability to actually use logic correctly, because: (1) they are incapable of independently fact-checking any premises to their logic; and (2) they are incapable of recognizing whether an inference is logically valid, in the sense that if the premises are true, the conclusion cannot be false.

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Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks [View all] highplainsdem May 31 OP

The modern version of the great replacement theory Walleye May 31 #1

Maybe Zuckerberg is wondering if he can eventually achieve what OpenAI CEO Sam.Altman says is highplainsdem May 31 #3

Repukes dream SheltieLover May 31 #6

True. highplainsdem May 31 #9

Some owners of big companies think of payroll as highway robbery Walleye May 31 #14

Does posting ambiguities fvck them up? bucolic_frolic May 31 #2

Those are hallucinations, common with LLMs or generative AI, and almost anything can fuck highplainsdem May 31 #4

Yes, hallucinations are what they've labeled them in an effort make them human bucolic_frolic May 31 #10

This will have disastrous results on every possible level. ananda May 31 #11

Pffttt...who cares? This will be like the tree falling in the forest and not making a sound Bengus81 May 31 #5

True. Facebook is already.drowning in AI slop and bot posts. highplainsdem May 31 #8

What could go wrong? Martin68 May 31 #7

AI is certainly artificial but I doubt Progressive dog May 31 #12

I didn't think Facebook had any real live humans anymore PatSeg May 31 #13

That's exactly the kind of thing AI doesn't do well William Seger May 31 #15

In reality, replace employees so the execs can get bigger bonuses. Wonder Why May 31 #16

The same can be said of Phone Maze menus in order to speak to a human.. ProudMNDemocrat Jun 1 #17