"AI" Training Data
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:19 am
https://winaero.com/google-is-using-eve ... in-its-ai/
This sort of trolling for data to build language models has been going on for years now, but it has really started to ramp up in recent months now that the tech giants are on board. I just want to put this out there: These language models are not intelligent. AI is just a buzzword. We've had chat bots since the 90s and this recent hype is only due to the parallel processing of GPU farms in data centers being leveraged. These newer text and image generation bots are massively wasteful, in my opinion. They gobble up just as much electricity as the gluttonous cryptominers. And for what? Endless uncanny-valley contortions of Japanese cartoons and for Google search to show even fewer results than ever before. But the language model gives the illusion that it's answering a question directly, so people can be fooled into thinking it's intelligent.
Predictably, there are already some Christians out there who are convinced that these chat bots are the Abomination of Desolation. Here are some talking heads from Fox freaking out about literally nothing, as usual: https://youtu.be/uKbFym9brW4
Anyway, this brings me back to when me and my good friend Rafe, from the ASuccubusLovesMe blog, were playing with the Bing chat bot. We asked it questions about how to summon a succubus. At first, it was hesitant to return any results because of the adult nature of the question. But after carefully rewording our query, Bing started to supply answers based on articles from the very blogs and guides that we've written over the years.
I was flattered that Bing would think so highly of us. 
At any rate, it's still just a chat bot language model hooked into a search engine. A far cry from actual general artificial intelligence, yet the concert of different technologies at work in the background can certainly give that illusion for the casual observer.
This sort of trolling for data to build language models has been going on for years now, but it has really started to ramp up in recent months now that the tech giants are on board. I just want to put this out there: These language models are not intelligent. AI is just a buzzword. We've had chat bots since the 90s and this recent hype is only due to the parallel processing of GPU farms in data centers being leveraged. These newer text and image generation bots are massively wasteful, in my opinion. They gobble up just as much electricity as the gluttonous cryptominers. And for what? Endless uncanny-valley contortions of Japanese cartoons and for Google search to show even fewer results than ever before. But the language model gives the illusion that it's answering a question directly, so people can be fooled into thinking it's intelligent.
Predictably, there are already some Christians out there who are convinced that these chat bots are the Abomination of Desolation. Here are some talking heads from Fox freaking out about literally nothing, as usual: https://youtu.be/uKbFym9brW4
Anyway, this brings me back to when me and my good friend Rafe, from the ASuccubusLovesMe blog, were playing with the Bing chat bot. We asked it questions about how to summon a succubus. At first, it was hesitant to return any results because of the adult nature of the question. But after carefully rewording our query, Bing started to supply answers based on articles from the very blogs and guides that we've written over the years.
I was flattered that Bing would think so highly of us. At any rate, it's still just a chat bot language model hooked into a search engine. A far cry from actual general artificial intelligence, yet the concert of different technologies at work in the background can certainly give that illusion for the casual observer.