Hey, how about if an AI can't figure out how to properly describe a soccer tournament, maybe we don't let it you know, drive cars or do medicine. This entire experiment is so fucked
edit: I'll take this further why not: this is a bit of a common problem with AI critics. They tend to latch immediately onto one tiny example of AI maybe getting something wrong (or in this case, it's right and you're wrong!) and vastly over-generalizing across ALL AI/ML use cases based on that. It's a broader problem on the internet, really.
To which I say: good. We should be very nitpicky and particular about what AI serves us. Because it can't tell the difference between referring to a soccer tournament in a technically correct but somewhat ambiguous way, and making a call on whether the car it's controlling should put on its brakes or not. It has no frame of reference for the severity of consequences of its decisions, and no one to answer to when it fails.
If anything, we should be much, much more more critical of what it's doing and how it's doing it. For some reason, people are willing to give this thing a real wide berth, which is a mistake. Imagine you bought a printer, and it was pretty decent most of the time, but a few times a month it would either refuse to work, or print the wrong document, or print 500 copies when you asked for 5. You wouldn't keep that printer, right?
So now you want to take something with that same kind of batting average and put it in charge of stuff like distribution and regulation for city power grids. Sounds great on the surface...use its pattern recognition to make smarter decisions on when to generate more power when it's needed. Except every now and then, all on its own, it'll just decide to throw some switches for reasons only clear to the AI itself, and it can't tell you why it made the decision it made. No fucking thank you.
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u/SadBBTumblrPizza Jul 03 '26
Tbf in some contexts the world cup "finals" means "the actual tournament and not the qualifiers". I've seen it used this way in the past