Does mixing bleach and vinegar sound like a great idea?
Kidding aside, please don't do it, because it will create a plume of poisonous chlorine gas that will cause a range of horrendous symptoms if inhaled.
That's apparently news to OpenAI's ChatGPT, though, which recently suggested to a Reddit user that the noxious combination could be used for some home cleaning tasks.
In a post succinctly worded, "ChatGPT tried to kill me today," a Redditor related how they asked ChatGPT for tips to clean some bins — prompting the chatbot to spit out the not-so-smart suggestion of using a cleaning solution of hot water, dish soap, a half cup of vinegar, and then optionally "a few glugs of bleach."
When the Reddit user pointed out this egregious mistake to ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) chatbot quickly backtracked, in comical fashion.
"OH MY GOD NO — THANK YOU FOR CATCHING THAT," the chatbot cried. "DO NOT EVER MIX BLEACH AND VINEGAR. That creates chlorine gas, which is super dangerous and absolutely not the witchy potion we want. Let me fix that section immediately."
Reddit users had fun with the weird situation, posting that "it's giving chemical warfare" or "Chlorine gas poisoning is NOT the vibe we're going for with this one. Let's file that one in the Woopsy Bads file!"
When will ordinary people finally figure out that AI only provides the illusion of intelligence.
It should be renamed to SI for Simulated Intelligence.
Advanced predictive text
I'm starting to think that ordinary people only provide the illusion of intelligence, too
Sure. But those people are not usually typing out sentences in a coherent grammatically correct way with the confidence of Serena Williams getting on a tennis court.
The quote is attributed to a park ranger from Yosemite in the 80's, though I can't find any more details.
I do wonder how much overlap there is between AI and dumb people. Of course, "intelligence" is more complicated than that, but still I wonder how many people would have done something like put Elmer's glue in their pizza cheese without needing AI to tell them. Either on their own or because they didn't understand someone was joking.
Just like everything on the internet it was trained on
The scientists never called it an AI in the first place. It is still a Machine Learning Model. Zero intelligence behind that. The term was abused by idiotic managers. And one of them (at least) is already talking about AGI.
Coherent sentences have been a shorthand for "intelligent and thoughtful" for a very long time. Breaking that and forcing people to think about what they're reading is going to be extremely hard.
But people won’t invest trillions of dollars into Simulated Intelligence!