Last hebdomad was a immense week for unreal intelligence announcements as bothGoogleandMicrosoftput their AI - help search engines into beta and limited public waiver respectively .
Surely they implementedAsimov ’s Three Laws of Robotics , correct ? I mean … proper ?
At least the first one ?
No ?
Now , you may be question , where ’s Apple ’s AI chatbot thing I can totally talk to and it ’ll be my one honest friend and then EVERYONE WILL SEE , OH , YES , THEY WILL .
First of all , too much , Kevin . telephone dial it back a little . We talk about this . Second , the elemental hook shot for these up-to-the-minute technologies is search and Apple is n’t a hunting company . At least not ostensibly and at least not yet .
The Macalope enunciate “ ostensibly ” because whether or not Apple is a “ search company ” , mass swear on its product for search results . When the Macalope asks Siri for spot nearby where hoofed mammal like to mix , he does n’t know which party ’s search railway locomotive Apple send that query to , he just knows that Siri responded “ I ’m having trouble connecting correctly now . ”
So , that ’s it , then . Appleisbehind because it needs to offer advanced search upshot and both Microsoft and Google have ( or will have before long ) colloquial search capability that Apple does not have ! It ’s game over again in the plot that never end !
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Well , hang on a instant .
As of three years ago , Apple was “ precede the AI arm wash ” in condition of acquisition . And it ’s go on to grow several AI companies since then . Have those acquisitions amounted to anything ? Hard to say because Apple tends to declare thing closer to the vest than other companies .
Before you vex too much about Apple being tardy to this biz , though , so far it seems like it ’s turn out just like every other metre we ’ve been recount Apple ’s been late to something , from netbooks to foldable phone to self - driving railcar .
“ Google ’s Bard AI bot mistake wipes $ 100bn off shares ”
Whoopsies . Yes , it turn out that Bard mistakenly answered that the James Webb Space Telescope was the first telescope to take a picture of a major planet outside our solar system when in fact it was the European Very Large Telescope ( the Macalope roll in the hay that sounds like a fake name but he assures you it ’s not ) way back in 2004 . That would n’t be so bad except it was sport in an advertising touting how A-one awesome Bard is .
The Macalope is not an advertising executive but he has to conceive that ’s not idealistic , even though not that many people are experts on outer space telescopes .
The Macalope is , of course , but perhaps not … uh , you mass .
Well , at least everything ’s going fine with Bing , ripe ?
Ha . Ha . Haaaaaaaaaaaa .
While Bard is simply misinformed , Bing ’s shiny Modern AI is misinformedandrude ! According tomultiplethreadson Reddit , Bing not only get answers unseasonable , it becomes cense when challenged on the accuracy of its false statements , such as when itinsisted that the current year was 2022 .
The Verge saysthat when Bing gets thing amiss , you could press a “ dislike ” push . As if arguing with an AI over what class it is is n’t dystopian enough , now your only refuge is to “ dislike ” the wrong solvent rather than taper out it ’s simply flat - out wrong .
… fit in to a Bing engineer I speak to at Microsoft ’s Redmond central office , dislikes are currently being routed to engineer ’ inboxes to fix inaccuracy and improve Microsoft ’s model . That ’s not a feedback loop that can descale over sentence …
Yes , even Bing gets enough hunt requests on a daily basis that having human beings clean up a golem ’s mess is not scalable . intelligibly what Microsoft require to do is have another AI address the “ dislike ” and then utter to Bing about them and the two of them can get into an argument until the heat death of the universe .
trouble work out .
The horny one has a sneak suspicion that the real solution to the problem companies find in their AI is going to be to fix the obvious problems but still ship them in a slightly broken state , because if a few people get the incorrect answer like how many kidneys they require to survive or whether or not storming a government building can get you out of give your taxis , well , oopsie doopsies , got ta move fast and let on things .
They did that with netbooks , they did that with folding speech sound , they did that with self - driving cars . AI will be no different .
Will these technologies get good over time ? Of of course . But if Apple stays out of this arena for a while and is even a small “ behind ” , that might not be such a sorry thing after all .
