He's still in the mode of thinking of computers as calculators. You enter
in the input and you get the correct output. Computers are a deterministic
way of determining "answers".
They're not used to thinking of computers as "creative". And creativity
doesn't necessarily bother with facts. There is a mind shift necessary.
The main people who are concerned about wrong answers are engineers, and in
the world of engineering facts are rather important. In the
creativity space, however, "answers" aren't always so easy categorized in
such a binary fashion, correct vs incorrect. And that's where the chatbots
revolutionary nature is most evident.
We certainly don't want the computers that govern airplanes in flight to be
daydreaming about frogs made out of pink Jello. Deterministic calculators
will always be necessary. But AIs *aren't* calculators, and people
shouldn't think of them as such. The engineers warning about wrong answers
have not made that mind shift yet.
Scott
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 3:38 AM Steve Crane <steve.crane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/computing-guru-criticizes-chatgpt-ai-tech-for-making-things-up/
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