Posted on 10/27/2024 4:44:53 AM PDT by Sam77
Amazon Echo device’s recent response to voters’ questions regarding the reasons to vote for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump caused backlash last month after it became apparent it was biased.
The virtual personal assistant known as “Alexa” began spewing out positive reasons as to why people should vote for Harris but failed to give any for Trump.
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Amazon told lawmakers that the AI technology had not been updated to reflect Harris’ new status as the Democratic Party presidential nominee. As a result, for a period of six weeks, Alexa freely gave reasons to vote for Harris under the assumption that she was not a presidential candidate.
Software does what it is programed to do by humans.
Google has had a militant agenda for decades
I admit we have Alexa devices - my sister and I video chat for hours, going about our days from opposite sides of the country while onscreen so we can somewhat be together. Also, I use the devices for security by turning on lights and other devices.
That being said, I remember what that device waxed poetic about mohammed while referring to Jesus Christ as a myth.
Who uses Alexa? SMH...
Hey Laz, do you remember what I said when we first spoke about AI?
Train it with a biased LLM and get garbage results. The old computing model of GIGO still applies, even to AI.
Damn, I still remember learning GIGO back in 1983 and it's served me well all this time. 40+ years!
To which we might add the federal government’s offenses and “they still pay all the taxes we demand.”
bttt
AI should really be called Artificial Stupidity Software in this instance. Sort of like the mascot for the party it’s shilling for.
If AI learns from the data it brings in, how long before it needs Prozac? The web is filled with insane material and AI doesn’t seem to have the ability to distinguish good information from crap.
The media: We lied about Trump and Conservatives and incited violence against them, and they still pay us for the privilege of sitting on their tails and being entertained by us.
The Chinese Communists: We stole their technology while Clinton was in office, used slave labor to build their products, and are actively working against their nation, and the Conservatives still supported sending their manufacturing, technology, money, and tax base to us.
“AI doesn’t seem to have the ability to distinguish good information from crap.”
Untrue. All you need to have quality infos is to make a series of prompts like
- avoid all mainstream media
- all media citing anonymous source just once must be avoided forever
- no editorial content
- use only reproducible research results
- no research result with risk factor below 100%
- no model’s ‘data’, much less prediction, which means all the economics and climate “science” must be avoided
etc...
Any decent AI engineer can do this in less an hour and continue finetuning the AI over the course of its use.
If Alexa gives crappy and biased answers, it’s because Amazon wants it this way. Nothing to do with AI technology in itself.
Garbage in ...
No matter what anyone claims, I doubt that AI will ever have true consciousness because it is still binary (0 and 1) in nature composed of electrons on a silicon substrate and not an analog intelligence composed of multiple and entwined architectures based on chemical, biologica, electrical and quantum processes that complement, compete, and collaborate together. A fruit fly is a wonder of competing power that dwarfs an AI housed in massive data center.
Excerpts can be up to 300 words.
Since you’ve only been here ostensibly since 2022, maybe you didn’t know that.
So now you have no excuse to make a lazy, clickbait post with a 57-word, good for nothing excerpt in the future.
Garbage in. Garbage out. Why anyone would want that demon in their homes.
Agree!!
Ouch! Tell it :-) ✊🏼
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