AI overviews: why????

[Kelly_Aquatics]

I view the AI overviews as a general consolidation of information to be taken with a grain of salt. When speed is more important than accuracy I will just read the overview, but anything more than unit conversions or cooking recipes I always dive deeper. Ai is a tool that is quickly getting out of hand, the truth is that it is already advanced enough to replace or reduce the need for the bulk of human workers in fields like software development and I know it won’t be long before it is more seriously implemented in my own field of engineering. In my naive opinion the government would do well to ban or heavily restrict the use of AI for anything more than personal use. The implications and effects it is already having to job security is terrifying.

 

[jjohnwm]

You’ll know the end is near, when John starts discussing his favourite characters in AI Fruit Slop. Lol

Yikes! Had to look that up...wish now that I hadn't.

Is that really how this sounds? Reading books designed to make you think and exercise your imagination equates to watching AI crap designed to do the exact opposite?

I view the AI overviews as a general consolidation of information to be taken with a grain of salt. When speed is more important than accuracy I will just read the overview...

The whole point of using AI is to get information; in what possible circumstance can speed be more important than accuracy? If the info is not accurate, who cares how fast you can get it?

Ai is a tool that is quickly getting out of hand...

This comment always makes me think of the video in which a group of terrorists give a machine gun to a baboon because they think it will be funny.

It turns out not to be.

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

The whole point of using AI is to get information; in what possible circumstance can speed be more important than accuracy? If the info is not accurate, who cares how fast you can get it.

Fair point. I suppose I view it the same way I view Wikipedia or similar sources, it is better than no information but far from the best source. At what point if ever, do you trust the info that ai provides? Should it be held to the same standards as academics and made to cite sources and follow other parameters? I have found it helpful to weed out information from documents I provide but I don’t trust the information that it retrieves itself. It is sort of like sending your dog to retrieve something but having no idea how or where it got the item from.

 

[skjl47]

The whole point of using AI is to get information; in what possible circumstance can speed be more important than accuracy?

Fair point

Hello; for sure a fair point.

 

[skjl47]

Is that really how this sounds? Reading books designed to make you think and exercise your imagination equates to watching AI crap designed to do the exact opposite?

Hello; I like two sorts of sci-fi. One sort is stories which try to be faithful to physics & other science as they appear to be. A trilogy started out with a first book called Rendezvous With RAMA. (By Clarke I think) Such is a fictional story which does not break the rules of known science.

The other sort of sci-fi is mind candy. Star trek is such a sort. Just make up things such as warp drive or transporters. Star trek is among the poorer of the genre.

To me, the alarming aspect of AI is so many appear to want to give over control. Self-driving cars a big example. Question= How did it become standard for the steering of most modern vehicle to go from direct control by the driver over to actually being steered by a computer. Same for throttle inputs. We humans turn the steering wheel but any more our steering inputs are mere suggestions reviewed by some control module. As long as the module remains faithful then we may feel like we are in control.
You may press on the gas pedal, but another module decides what the throttle body actually does. A thing called a PEDAL MASTER can be bought and plugged into the OBDII port. That master overrides the factory program, and you can adjust throttle response.

 

[Ulu]

. . . When speed is more important than accuracy I will just read the overview . . . .

When I read that immediately I saw this cartoon in my mind. There’s a map with a little road that goes to the ocean and the voice says, “…well speed is more important than accuracy…”

Then you zoom out from the map and there are two lemmings reading the map, at the end of the line, and they are all heading to the cliff and into the Sea.

By the way I read the Rama books, and they were not about speed at all. They were stories about cultural interactions.

Rama was a giant spacecraft of unknown age which had been drifting through the universe at some silly speed forever. At some point we discover it and land there. I won’t spoil the stories for anyone that’s interested.

Science-fiction writers are good at inventing interesting paradoxes, but we don’t need much invention to see the paradox is going on in our own life these days.

People are placing increasing value on how well educated and intelligent they are, but at the same time they are going to let machines take over all of their thinking and doing.

Our most basic human software-hardware interaction is “monkey see monkey do”.

Once you remove that from human beings what you have left is cats and dogs, and you can tell by the fighting in the world this is has already happened in way too many cases.

I believe it was Robert Heinlein that wrote of a world where everything was extremely automated, and not only could engineers not do ordinary mathematics without a calculator, but they no longer believed that it was even possible.

I think we achieved that with current elementary school children, and have been there for some time, judging from what I see in public.