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All the text generators ever do is output the most-likely-next-word, over and over.
So, no, the text generators do not "admit to their mistakes when challenged". They are just auto-completing the template you put into them.
Far too many people who should know better pretend otherwise.
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No, most-likely-next-word automated plagiarism text generators still cannot be used to "generate a hypothesis".
And the next AI winter really cannot come soon enough.
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One can simply say that text generators are not designed to do & cannot do the things they are promoted for and tell people to not use them.
Rather than perpetuating hype.
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One can simply say that text generators are not designed to do & cannot do the things they are promoted for and tell people to not use them.
Rather than perpetuating hype.
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I'm a socialist and I don't live anywhere near a coast—unless the Great Lakes count.
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I'm a socialist and I don't live anywhere near a coast—unless the Great Lakes count.
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If one had to make a list of the greatest recent developments in engineering, one would include things like "mRNA vaccines" and "solar panels and batteries".
The automated plagiarism machines are nowhere on the list.
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If one had to make a list of the greatest recent developments in engineering, one would include things like "mRNA vaccines" and "solar panels and batteries".
The automated plagiarism machines are nowhere on the list.
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No, the text generators cannot do statistics.
And it remains disappointing to witness people who should know better pretend that software can do things it cannot.
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No, the text generators cannot do statistics.
And it remains disappointing to witness people who should know better pretend that software can do things it cannot.
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"data centers in space" cannot and will not be a thing in the foreseeable future.
And media outlets really need to stop promoting the scam of those pretending otherwise.
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"data centers in space" cannot and will not be a thing in the foreseeable future.
And media outlets really need to stop promoting the scam of those pretending otherwise.
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Einkorn still contains the protein subunit that triggers the celiac disease reaction.
As has every variety of wheat, rye, and barley for the last few million years.
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If a satellite program has done 1 successful mission out of 4 attempts in 8 years; you might not call it "rapid or "frequent".
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No, the text generators trained on stolen scraped text cannot be used for signal processing either.
This is quite the week for me encountering bad "AI" ideas.
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No, the text generators trained on stolen scraped text cannot be used for signal processing either.
This is quite the week for me encountering bad "AI" ideas.
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No, you cannot "vibe-code" ray tracing and optics.
If you should get the right answer doing so, it was just a matter of chance.
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No, you cannot "vibe-code" ray tracing and optics.
If you should get the right answer doing so, it was just a matter of chance.
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"Recreational coronary angiography" had better not be a thing.
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When two separate manufacturers of launch vehicles have their latest rockets explode within a week, it is in fact not "good news" for either company.
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When two separate manufacturers of launch vehicles have their latest rockets explode within a week, it is in fact not "good news" for either company.
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The United States did not exist until long after 1776.
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The United States did not exist until long after 1776.
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One could try to set a Bayesian prior with a sample size of exactly one.
But it will not actually mean anything.
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If you should use the text generators in place of your own words on one subject, that makes it harder for me to trust what you say on any other subject.
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If you should use the text generators in place of your own words on one subject, that makes it harder for me to trust what you say on any other subject.
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I would like articles reporting on Donald Trump's crimes that do not feature pictures of him in their preview images.
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No, not all machine learning systems are "large language models".
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No, not all machine learning systems are "large language models".
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Not every science project name has to be an acronym.
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Not every science project name has to be an acronym.
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There has not been any increase in the number of meteors and fireballs recently.
If there were, meteor surveys would have noticed.
There is just a 2-sigma excursion in the number of fireball reports over the past few months.
(There have, however, been way more satellite reentries).
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There has not been any increase in the number of meteors and fireballs recently.
If there were, meteor surveys would have noticed.
There is just a 2-sigma excursion in the number of fireball reports over the past few months.
(There have, however, been way more satellite reentries).
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Online gambling sites are not polls. And nobody should be permitted to pretend otherwise.
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Online gambling sites are not polls. And nobody should be permitted to pretend otherwise.
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Reflect Orbital is a scam. Nobody who knows physics or engineering should be pretending otherwise.
And Znamya was a bad idea in the 1990s and would still be a bad idea now.
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No, "we programmed the text generator to reproduce the bad science fiction we fed into it" is not remotely the same as "AI is too powerful and dangerous".
And journalists really need to stop perpetuating the pretense.
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No, "we programmed the text generator to reproduce the bad science fiction we fed into it" is not remotely the same as "AI is too powerful and dangerous".
And journalists really need to stop perpetuating the pretense.
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Well that was more than I expected to have to learn about Excel VB macros!
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Well that was more than I expected to have to learn about Excel VB macros!
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No operational human lunar lander currently exists. And nobody should be pretending otherwise.
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No operational human lunar lander currently exists. And nobody should be pretending otherwise.
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Any article which treats the output of the automated plagiarism machines as if it were anything other than the result of a most-likely-next-word text generator is perpetuating disinformation.
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I really could do without political news stories that pretend that elected officials do not have personal agency.
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"We coded an automated plagiarism machine to plagiarize old science fiction stories" is neither original nor newsworthy.
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If a "self-taught physicist" who has no relevant expertise claims to have shown that something contradicts the energy conditions of general relativity, you should ignore everything they have to say.
And you certainly should not hype their start-up.
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Private funders cannot remotely approach the scale of basic research currently publicly funded by governments.
Anyone saying otherwise is either dishonest or profoundly misinformed.
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"We only ran the self-driving cars in low-risk situations because we did not want the potential liability from doing otherwise" is not remotely the same as "the self-driving cars are safer than human drivers".
Despite 15+ years of hype pretending otherwise.
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At a time when jobs are being lost across nearly all categories of employment, a professional society offering a "how to apply for jobs" workshop does not seem like an adequate response.