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Foreign Policy: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Start (foreignpolicy.com)

submitted 5 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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at frickin last - I wrote this in January and it's finally been published

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[+] aaron -9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

asdf

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Presumably ‘AI’ can make simple rules based decisions, if done properl

honest question: was this meant seriously, or in jest?

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[+] aaron -8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

asdf

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[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

why do you think hallucinating autocomplete can make rules-based decisions reliably

AI analyses it, decides if applicant is entitled to benefits.

why do you think this is simple

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[+] aaron -8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

sadf

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[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

good, use your excel spreadsheet and not a tool that fucking sucks at it

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[–] jlow@beehaw.org 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You should not need an AI to do that if it's not a freeform text input?

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[+] aaron -6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

asdf

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[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And in fact barring the inevitable fuckups AI probably can eventual handle a lot of interpretation currently carried out by human civil servants.

But honestly I would have thought that all of this is obvious, and that I shouldn’t really have to articulate it.

you keep making claims about what LLMs are capable of that don’t match with any known reality outside of OpenAI and friends’ marketing, dodging anyone who asks you to explain, and acting like a bit of a shit about it. I don’t think we need your posts.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the post history is very infosec dot pub

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[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

a terrible place for both information and security

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and a terrible pub

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

Jury's still out on the Damage Over Time effect.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

"AI" in the context of the article is "LLMs". So, the definition of not trustworthy.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

citation/link/reference, please

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