“The technology might not introduce the delusion, but the person tells the computer it’s their reality and the computer accepts it as truth and reflects it back, so it’s complicit in cycling that delusion,” Sakata told the WSJ.
Thing that tells you exactly what you want to hear causes delusions?
Whaaat?
I completely understand why articles like this need to exist. Information about what ‘AI’ actually is needs to be spread. That being said, I also can’t remove myself from the impression that this is just incredibly obvious. Like one of those studies about whether a dog actually loves their owner by going to lengths such as an MRI of their brain while looking at their owner.
Like, thank you mystery researcher on the internet — but you could have saved the helium by just sticking to Occam’s Razor.
That’s what the article says, yes:
Thing that tells you exactly what you want to hear causes delusions?
Whaaat?
I completely understand why articles like this need to exist. Information about what ‘AI’ actually is needs to be spread. That being said, I also can’t remove myself from the impression that this is just incredibly obvious. Like one of those studies about whether a dog actually loves their owner by going to lengths such as an MRI of their brain while looking at their owner.
Like, thank you mystery researcher on the internet — but you could have saved the helium by just sticking to Occam’s Razor.