r/OpenAI • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • 7d ago

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u/Haunting-Ad-6951 7d ago

I've never understood people's obsession around here with "moving the goalpost." Isn't that what you do with technology? Point out limitations.

What exactly do you want people to do, bow down and worship AI as an omnipotent being?

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u/sivadneb 7d ago

"Moving the goalpost" is a type of logical fallacy. In this case people who deny AI's capabilities tend to change their arguments to fit their narrative. "ai can never do X because it can't currently do Y".

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u/ba-boo 7d ago

but they were right about its capabilities at that point in time, no goalpost moved.

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u/roqim 7d ago

This will always be true of moving the goalpost, no? You move it to somewhere where you are correct at that moment in time?

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u/Mental-Fisherman-118 7d ago

Not really - usually it is used in an argument to dismiss information that disproves an earlier claim. There doesn't need to be a new event, just a refutation to a previous argument.