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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9091395" data-attributes="member: 42856">I am not sure it's an AI mess up, but it's a fun webmaster messup. It's more a case of unclear instructions. This is a valid answer if you don't add context into your question. Sure, the AI is mindless (because it's not emulating any mind), it's just collating the most probable elements that would answer your question. It delivers the "most probable" opinion from his database.If the training was done on expert opinions, there is a great chance it will be valuable (as in diagnose assistant AI), if it's trained on messages pulled from the Internet, it will tell the average idea you could hear by striking a conversation with a random person in your neighbourhood watering hole, ie, not something you'd rely for anything. It is also prone to be spouting outdated information since, contrary to popular belief, AI are not training themselves without supervision. If you ask for public and easily verifiable information like who is the holder of a specific public office, you'll get the answer that was right when the document the AI was trained on were collected. I just asked Bard to check, and I get a 10 years old information... and that's because the list of office holder on Wikipedia wasn't updated since 2013...I really don't understand why people would assume what is answered by the a chatbot AI trained on Internet data is true. It's just well-presented, but anyone with high-school education could make a well-presented essay in favour of patently false things. And on the internet, a large part of questions about scimitars would be RPG-related, not history and archeology related. An AI failure, and there are many, would be if they included that when the context was explicitely provided. AI isn't a mind reading machine, it isn't more apt to do anything than its training data is. That's why we need more education, in general, about AI, to avoid the same fiasco we had with the Internet, where conspiracy theory abound because somehow people lose a lot of their critical thinking when it's written on the computer (or told on TV...) and they shouldn't lose their critical thinking toward AI-presented data.</blockquote>

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