It is not you. The world IS getting dumber.

Just for fun!
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The Guardian asks here if we are living in a golden age of stupidity?

They answer in the affirmative. But you knew that already, right?

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Sadly, yes.

Just from skimming the first part of the story, I caught this –

“In other words, whatever the people using ChatGPT felt was going on inside their brains, the scans showed there wasn’t much happening up there.”

That leads my strange mind to the conclusion that in the not so distant future all those ‘loons’ and ‘weirdos’ that are living off the grid are going to actually rule the freaking world…

" Is this the dawn of what the writer and education expert Daisy Christodoulou calls a “stupidogenic society”, a parallel to an obesogenic society, in which it is easy to become stupid because machines can think for you?"

Already on the launch pad waiting for the countdown. We need a NEW Doomsday Clock that is MORE important than the existing one.

MUCH further down (and I just skimmed) we found a description of how Amazon AI reaches conclusions ( :smiling_face_with_horns:) –

"During the pandemic, Miles says, he found his young son weeping over his school-issued tablet. His son was doing an online maths program and he had been tasked with making six using the fewest number of one, three and five tokens. He kept suggesting using two threes, and the computer kept telling him he was wrong. Miles tried one and five, which the computer accepted. “That’s kind of the nightmare you get with a non-human AI, right?”

For old timers –
We have met the enemy, and he is us…

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Yes, we knew. But I think that we might be in the minority.

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Since we know that whatever I read it is likely that I will immediately find another explanation for the behavior.

Maybe the rapid adoption of ChatGPT is due to people finding the activities it is being applied to to be irrelevant, annoying, loathsome and detestable, and minimizing their effort and involvement to be a major improvement.

The results may be dubious, but so are the results from people who are performing task which they have to rather than want to do.

I continue to feel that large model AI is on the whole a negative development and we need fear it, not because of the potential for evil but because it is no better than people who believe that statistical correlation is a way of finding truth and we will be dealing with erroneous results far more often .

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The world is facing GIGO on steroids and is not prepared for it.

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The only thing dumber than people is AI

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The world has been dealing it GIGO for many years and hasn’t had a clue that they have been.

The number who notice any change will be far lower than it should be.

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Very true.
But I think that modern technology has succeeded in making it even more efficient.

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My oldest child sent us this:

Just taking the test was an eye-opener…and not in a good way.

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So is the disclaimer which appears if ya score too high:

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:smiley:

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I too got a 99! “I have heard of AI” lol and lived to tell about it.

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I watched a YouTube video last night, where the text would come up on the bottom and an AI voice would read it, with slight inflections (supposedly some AI is good enough that you can’t tell; this isn’t one of them)
When it got to something that had cost “$100,000”, it read it as “One hundred dollars, zero zero zero”. Unbelievable.

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So, I checked the one box and got the 99 also. I’m figuring they use the same scoring system that Amazon uses when they REALLY want to suspend someone.

It’s VERY flexible… :smiling_face_with_horns:

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