walking mirage @wolf.observer · Jun 2

if you ask google what basically any combination of words is, its AI will confidently go on at length as though they're something that exists, synthesizing numerous sources to "support" it. i seperately asked it about the ergodic, differentiable, and support vector machine approaches to childrearing

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AgNOme · Jun 2

I disagree with Google here. The spliff method of joint parenting often gives me a headache.

Aaron · Jun 2

A couple analytical chemistry instrumental analysis modes of parenting.

walking mirage · Jun 2

the death of ontology is upon us. all things that can be conceptualized, described, or named will be deemed to have existed. the machine will define them for us. and google wants this to become what people mean when they say they "googled" something

mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) · Jun 2

@wolf.observer you can have it "answer like" random crap!

Bobby Brown · Jun 2

To its credit, it seems to understand this is only applicable as a metaphor, its response is entirely consistent with that, and it makes no claims that anyone in their right mind thinks about it that way -- but fails to express any doubt in such or make any critique on humanist grounds.

Just Another Apocryphal Mess · Jun 2

they created a machine that is not allowed to say "I don't know" and now they can't get it to stop lying constantly. who could have predicted this?