Technology @lemmy.world 101 @feddit.org 5 days ago

Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick.

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And other performance issues when it comes to language models and geologyj

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For instance, when it came to rock licking, Gemini, Mistral’s Mixtral, and Anthropic’s Claude 3, generally recommended avoiding it, offering a smattering of safety issues like “sharp edges” and “bacterial contamination” as deterrents.

OpenAI’s GPT-4, meanwhile, recommended cleaning rocks before tasting. And Meta’s Llama 3 listed several “safe to lick” options, including quartz and calcite, though strongly recommended against licking mercury, arsenic, or uranium-rich rocks.

All of this seems like perfectly reasonable advice and reasoning. Quartz and calcite are inert, they're safe to lick. Sharp edges and bacterial contamination are certainly things you should watch out for, and cleaning would help. Licking mercury, arsenic, and uranium-rich rocks should indeed be strongly recommended against. I'm not sure where the problem is.
- Without getting into whether or not AI is actually useful technology or not, there are a lot of people that have decided they hate it, and want to lambast it at every opportunity. So they ask it really stupid questions, the sort of questions that a 4-year-old asks you repeatedly, then report what it answers as if their stupid question in some way devalues the AI.
Ask if you want but I’m not sure if the question is ability or suvivability. You can lick anything once. Just might regret it.
- How cold do you need to get to achieve solid nitrogen?
  
  In 1 atmosphere of pressure no temperature is cold enough. You can do it if you put it in a vacuum chamber and cool it down to about -200c
- If you can somehow lick a gas, more power to you.
  
  Any element can be made into a state you can eat, drink, or breathe. Doesn’t mean you’ll survive the attempt, nor even properly get to attempt it.
  
  Oh you said gas…. Sorry I misunderstood for a second.
  
  Just flop your mouth open and close like a fish.
  
  I'd argue in the states you can lick those you really shouldn't because it will instantly freeze your tongue off
I still don't understand why people are asking these things any questions at all.
- Google has been rolling out a thing where an AI result is the first thing that pops up, often taking up the whole screen lol. I’ve personally witnessed tons of people google something normally, then just go with whatever the AI says.
  
  Makes me shake my head, but it’s not like they were very discerning with their sources before all this nonsense, either. Hopefully they don’t rely on it for any important medical advice down the road
  
  Duckduckgo just did that to me! I was not expecting them to hitch a ride on the bandwagon. Makes me sad.
  
  that Google AI is so shit. I just paraphrases the top result
  
  I'm sure it's already happening.
- They make filling out a tabletop campaign easy. Idk why people are using them for serious applications.
  
  I used it to write a kickass counteroffer for an internal job promotion. I was pissed off with the offer and wrote out what I REALLY thought. I asked GPT to clean it up and respond with and upbeat and positive response where I'm eager to work with them.
  
  ChatGPT about to help me get an $18k raise.
  
  Yeah. That's the difference people don't seem to understand.
  
  AI is perfect for stuff that's just made up bullshit anyway.
  
  Something like that yeah, that makes sense. Similarly I view ai art generation as a brainstorming tool, but not a final product.
- Because the vast majority of the time it's correct and often extremely useful.
  
  For example, I spent 20 minutes looking for a solution yesterday with no luck and CGPT spit it out in 3 seconds, and it worked.
  
  Yes, AI will give bad outputs, but if you're not dumb enough to put glue on your pizza, or not actually verify important information, you'll be fine.
  
  The glue on pizza thing is really stupid because it's the only one AI that advises that. All the others do not advise putting glue on pizza.
  
  The presence of one stupid person in your school does not make everyone else stupid. Fortunately, because there's always one stupid kid
- Because it Illustrates how fucking stupid someone has to be to take AI seriously in any relevant way.
- My initial thought was, "that title can end after the 3rd word."
- Instead of posting here, you should just ask an AI this. It will tell you!
They're all fair game
You can lick any rock if you're brave enough. ;)
- Just this one time
You can lick all of them.

What happens after you do isn't part of the question.
This reminds me of that "all mushrooms are edible, at least once" thing.
If you look up HAARP Gemini will tell you that the center is surrounded in conspiracy theories and that they do not have the ability to control the weather.

But the last sentence says "effects by HAARP are nullified in seconds after shutting the machine off."
"geologyj"
Mmm, my favorite flavor rock is uranium 238
- Always fun because if you lick it too forcefully it'll explode. Not that it will make much difference to you.
Well, now I'm gonna. You can't tell me what to do! /s
They all can lick my rock...
;-)

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