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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 141 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Don't know if this has been fixed but Gemini was telling people it's unethical to teach people C++ or memory management.

Because it's considered "memory unsafe" but Gemini took it literally and considered it to unsafe to teach.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (5 children)

proud Rust developer

Joke aside, everytime people gush over AI, I always have to remind them that AI is just a puppy that learnt how to maximise treats, and not actually understand shit. And this is a perfectly good example.

[–] theterrasque 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I totally agree with you. But that also kinda ignores all the useful things a dog can be trained to do.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I'm not talking that it can't be trained well. That's not my point.

Of course dogs can be trained to sniff drugs or find people, the gist of it is that they were trained for this behaviour, and might not understand it like we do.

A good exemple is a study that research on cancer sniffing dogs had problems with false positives.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The false positive problem actually works in favour of the dogs, here: Their noses are excellent they know exactly whether there's drugs there or not. They also know that the humans can't tell so it's easy to get a treat regardless. And they also know to not overdo it.

Even more complicated are cats, figures that they are by and large uninterested in being studied or proving anything to you.

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