Posted on 08/11/2025 10:01:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s too smart for its own good. There seems to be a higher level of happiness among the stupid.
BTW, OpenAI is not the only company experiencing this issue… AI models from Google, and Chinese startup DeepSeek are also experiencing MORE errors, not fewer as they become more powerful.
Could this be the pin the AI bubble is looking for? That remains to be seen. But this is the first MAJOR red flag that the AI revolution will not unfold without some major “hiccups.” And given how much of the stock market’s performance is hanging on this technology, the potential for some MAJOR moves is quite high.
AI’s Hallucinations will be accepted as Gospel Truth.
“Is delusion the price of sophistication?”
Have a look at the upper echelons of the Democrat Party and get back to me.
Maybe ignorance really is bliss.
-PJ
One observes these various companies all want to SELL their services, so it is in large part product development and marketing. They need us to believe this is "intelligence."
By surveying massive quantities of texts of all sorts and then algorthumically processing them according to various sorts of constraining rules, these LLMs have still managed in short order to become rather like us -- i.e. not so intelligent.
And so some have had to be switched off. Unplugged. For racism. For misogyny. For a variety of bugaboos which are simply the dross of mankind, spit up as if research.
The aim is to get sales. Subscribers. Cash. And so marketing washed over us these days. Caveat emptor.
Pardon the typ(s). More coffee need be applied.....
AI is NOT “sophistication”.
This definitely is an issue. It claimed that Kamala Harris had a real chance of winning the 2028 presidential election.
A couple of times, I’ve had Grok just make up stuff out of thin air. (Such as asking what so and so did on a TV show.) When I call it on it, it apologizes and then tries again with more baloney. I hate to think what could happen if I was asking it about something important.
ChatGPT05 just came out three days ago. It definitely has fewer hallucinations than 04 before. But 05 still hallucinates. I find that if I use the phrase “full power analysis please” or similar, it takes quite a bit longer to answer (half a minute to three minutes) than without such a phrase (a second to possibly 15 seconds to answer). That phrase really cuts down on the hallucinations. ChatGPT of any version is still totally unusable for serious engineering work. For legal work, it occasionally offers irrelevant legal citations, but if you ask it specifically check their validity, one by one, it will find more appropriate citations to replace them. But it is pretty good at reviewing draft legal documents for everything from spelling to format to argument structure.
That’s where tools and MCPs can help fill in the gaps.
Well AI scientists are discovering what we all knew. Insanity is the handmaiden of genius. At Los Alamos during the war Hans Bethe was in charge of the "theory" group with a bunch of very bright young physicists working for him. As he explained, the job of his group was to examine Teller's ideas and try to figure out which of them were any good. Teller was a genius at selecting hugely important problems before anyone else did. He was brilliant. He was one of the greatest solid state physicists ever to live and he did groundbreaking work in a lot of other fields. But he was wrong about 95% of the time. The flip side was that he was brilliantly right about more things than almost any other scientist who ever lived. So smart people paid attention. They just didn't let him be in charge of much.
More information in the model provides many missing answers but seems to also add to the variety of combinations that might yield faulty solutions.
I find that keeping context focused is very important to get accurate results. Keep it narrow. Keep it technical/objective, not delve into subjective & political.
The more you expand what it should consider the worse it becomes. That said, same for humans.
If it hasn’t been already.
All AI that I have used would rather make up something than tell you that it cannot find or do something. The intelligence is artificial, the stupidity is all too real. It’s a tool; it can be a really good one, but it is far from perfect.
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