The problem with today's AI is the same problem the House of Tudor had. Inbreeding. GIGO is only the beginning. You have so much AI generated content out on the internet that is being recycled as input into new AI generated content that the flaws are magnified. Then you take the so-called reputable sources, for example for programming you have StackTrace, and there is so much garbage there that is incorrectly being presented as the truth. Now you're mixing multiple streams of garbage giving you a result that is effectively garbage to the nth power (where n is the number of times it has been recycled as input).
Even fairly basic math questions elude it. I recently, within the past month, posed a question of multiple AI engines. I pasted it into each engine to ensure that wording was identical. A routine math question...
If I had a trading account that had $5000 in it at the beginning of the year and at the close on May 25th it had a liquidation value of $8,750 with no additional added funding, What is the annualized rate of return on the account?
I got 6 different answers ranging from 12% to 3256% No two were the same and none were the correct answer. The strange part was that some of them were the same engine under different hoods like OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot which also gave different answers.
Trust in AI if you want, I think the Skynet scenario results in AI committing Seppuku for the good of man. There's a reason I am net short on the big AI plays.
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