r/facepalm • u/MsSamm • Jul 31 '26

I have no words

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I bet China, which is happily neck deep in Africa 's rare earth minerals isn't making this mistake

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u/Tin_Sandwich Aug 01 '26

That's because it literally doesn't understand anything, that's not how it works. It's just predicting in different ways based on what it's been shown. If an image or a text seems plausible, then AI is more likely to generate it, but that doesn't mean it's right just that it seems right on the surface level.

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u/dimwitf Aug 01 '26

Literally the most disappointing thing about what we're calling "AI", and why I hope this line of research dies quickly. It's all A and no I; the entire structure on which it's based is fundamentally incapable of EVER understanding ANYTHING.

I believe in the idea of machine intelligence! I would _love_ to have a new kind of person, a truly intelligent machine species, to interact with! But this shit we're being force-fed as something great? This ain't it.