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Inevitably, Someone Used AI to Generate Recipes. It... Didn't go Well

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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28 minutes ago, TdeV said:

Trust hackers to F things up!

 

I saw no evidence of hacking in the article. Just bad AI.  A well-designed brief would have ruled out these potentially fatal glitches. It's just another another GIGO. Garbage in; garbage out. Artificial Idiocy only does what it's told.

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
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For the last few years I've been consulting people on ice cream recipe development. My secret weapon has been software that I designed that basically encodes all the stuff I've researched, and then does the math for me. Since these are basically math and science problems, It's abundantly clear that someday AI will put me out of business. But a few attempts with ChatGPT have convinced me that that day isn't today. The nice robot very confidently calculated a bunch of recipes that just plain wouldn't work. 

 

Right now one of its biggest weaknesses is that it makes stuff up out of thin air ... and doesn't seem to know the difference between doing that and using real genuine knowledge. 

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8 hours ago, paulraphael said:

For the last few years I've been consulting people on ice cream recipe development. My secret weapon has been software that I designed that basically encodes all the stuff I've researched, and then does the math for me. Since these are basically math and science problems, It's abundantly clear that someday AI will put me out of business. But a few attempts with ChatGPT have convinced me that that day isn't today. The nice robot very confidently calculated a bunch of recipes that just plain wouldn't work. 

 

Right now one of its biggest weaknesses is that it makes stuff up out of thin air ... and doesn't seem to know the difference between doing that and using real genuine knowledge. 

Mind you, the same could be said of many humans.

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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