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[-] aurellence@lemmy.ml 112 points 3 weeks ago

“If you want AI that tells you when something is fake and where it came from, AI can do that,” he says. “Humans can’t, we’re not that smart.

dead-eyed stare in librarian

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 29 points 3 weeks ago

How could that even be true since it was humans thay trained ai. What a dumb statement ahh

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Ai can do plenty of classification tasks better than humans though. It's not like every entity that trains another is fundamentally smarter.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Software can't tell truth from lies because software doesn't even know what those are. It doesn't know anything. It's a parrot, a magic trick, a mirror to fool people (people like George Lucus) into thinking there's another person looking a back at them.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Regardless many ai classifiers outperform humans at classifying. Your comment seems irrelevant to the discussion.

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

The parameters set for classifying that are basically non-existant. So no, they can't really do any of that. AI-bros will readily claim they can though, because it is like really important to them.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I did not claim they can tell truth from fiction, it's just irrelevant. Goalpost shift for no reason on their part, they don't have to be able to do that to classify things or predict protein folding.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Your comment seems irrelevant to the discussion.

As opposed to your comment moving the goalposts from an AI doing something humans can't, to them just being better than humans (which is absolutely arguable in most cases)?

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was responding to the claim that ai's can't do anything better than the thing that trained them. It's completely relevant and not a goalpost shift. They can do plenty of things that humans can't feasibly do, such as protein folding prediction.

[-] shuffle3765@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Your brain is also software

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but to say humans can't do this when humans doing it were what provided it the data is a dumb statement. Humans classified the data so that AI could learn you wouldnt say humans can't classify data.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz -5 points 3 weeks ago

Humans can, ai can do it better than humans in many areas though.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's a MUCH different statement though, and not at all relevant to a claim that AI is able to do things humans CAN'T do.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Protein folding, then.

[-] Rothe@piefed.social -1 points 3 weeks ago

In most areas it can't. It can do a much worse job though, if that is what you are looking for.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

So? In many it can do a much better one: protein folding for example

[-] shuffle3765@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

When I was in college I built a chess playing program that I couldn't beat. It wasn't very good, but it was much better than me. The trick is machine learning: teach it the rules, get it to play millions of games against itself and adjust its strategy after each game.

The AI can become better at a learnable skill than those who trained it because the AI can spend zillions of hours practicing

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 week ago

Yes but thats not whats happening here. The base is created by using human data.

[-] M137@lemmy.today -2 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Useful comment

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 11 points 3 weeks ago

AI detection by AI is not reliable. Lots of false negatives, and comparatively less but still too much reporting false positives to be reliable (and those are especially biased).

It's unlikely to get better too. If AI was able to reliably detect AI output, why not use that to correct itself to be less AI-like? And where is the seemingly infinite money thrown at in this struggle?

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

If AI was able to reliably detect AI output, why not use that to correct itself to be less AI-like?

You just described adversarial training, something I've been hearing about for at least a few years now.

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