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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Fomenting folderol? Well, garbage in, garbage out, as Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports at El Reg. Here’s a bit of his article:

Welcome to Garbage In/Garbage Out (GIGO). Formally, in AI circles, this is known as AI model collapse. In an AI model collapse, AI systems, which are trained on their own outputs, gradually lose accuracy, diversity, and reliability. This occurs because errors compound across successive model generations, leading to distorted data distributions and “irreversible defects” in performance. The final result? A Nature 2024 paper stated, “The model becomes poisoned with its own projection of reality.”

In related news, in this week’s Le Show, Harry Shearer reports on how big tech’s fascination with AI is leading to record levels of usage of electricity and of water to cool data centers. The relevant portion starts at about the 38-minute mark.

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