Don't Trust Generative AI - Particularly Agents

This is getting to be a pattern, once again we start with Gary Marcus:

Don’t trust Generative AI to do your taxes — and don’t trust it with people’s lives

“The problem comes down to how A.I. chatbots are fundamentally designed”

Of course LLMs can't do taxes. Taxes have rules. LLMs don't do rules. They do autocomplete. Autocomplete is a bad tech for taxes.

& of course, it takes an administration as completely incompetent as the one we have now to decide it's a good idea to use autocomplete to fight a war.

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Next, from Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism. This post rehashes several topics we've already seen, but with some new insights.

Smith brings up Asimov's 3 Laws, I've already posted about how I prefer my Morality™ module approach.

Autonomous AI Agents Have an Ethics Problem

This article describes how autonomous AI agents have no scruples. Once you think about it, giving AI even a degree of independence of operation was a bad idea.

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Pretty much 0 measurable upsides to Generative AI. Meanwhile, so many measurable downsides - 100s, & still counting. How has it not been banned? Or at a minimum licensed? Oh wait. Too much $$$ involved, maybe? From 404 Media:

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.

I certainly don't feel in the slightest to be competent getting involved in something like this. Thanks AI!

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