Maybe AI is no better than—and has the same flaws as—the imperfect people who program it. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:
Fantasies die especially hard when the dream was over-hyped.
The most self-defeating way to launch a new product is to over-promise its wonderfulness as it woefully under-performs these hype-heightened expectations, which brings us to AI and how it is following this script so perfectly that it’s like it was, well, programmed to do so.
You see why this is self-defeating: Over-Promise + Under-Perform = Disillusionment and disillusionment generates blowback, a disgusted rejection of the product, the overblown hype and those who pumped the hype 24/7 for their own benefit.
“We’re so close to AGI (artificial general intelligence) we can smell it.” Uh, yeah, sure, right. Meanwhile, back in Reality(tm), woeful under-performance to the point of either malice or stupidity (or maybe both) is the order of the day.
1. ‘Catastrophic’: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Wipes Out Company’s Entire Database.
“Replit’s AI agent even issued an apology, explaining to Lemkin: ‘This was a catastrophic failure on my part. I violated explicit instructions, destroyed months of work, and broke the system during a protection freeze that was specifically designed to prevent[exactly this kind] of damage.’
I tried to find out the name of the Penthouse artist who did the Slick Willie in a dress and Average Intelligence failed.
The ones of Reagan and Arafat are extremely offensive and LOL funny.
Learned that Reagan called what Israel did to Lebanon a genocide back in 1982!
I will dig out that box of Penthouse in closet just to find the artist name.