Seen on Substack ⚙️ https://substack.com/@tedgioia/note/c-128027920 :
Yesterday I did a Google search to identify the most successful movie of the last 5 years. Instead I got an AI response—which I didn’t ask for. AI identified a film from 2019 as the most popular movie in the last 5 years. And it even specified that the movie came out in 2019.
AI always serves up this garbage—it makes mistakes a child would easily avoid. And now tech CEOs want AI to rewrite history? It won’t even get the dates correct.
It gets worse, Google AI seems to think that the period from 2019 through 2024 is five years in duration. It can’t even count to five without making a mistake.
The period from 2019 to 2024 IS five years. Yes, the whole period would be six years. But if you want a period of 5 years that ends in May 2024, it is 2019-2024.
That Samaritan's entire schtick seems to be saying that AIs are garbage because they didn't make the same mistake that he made. And, that the solution is for more people to get an Oxford education like he did.
⚙️ https://www.honest-broker.com/p/5-ways-to-stop-ai-cheating
🔥 It is both a humblebrag and a completely stupid idea. "Use more Latin! Don't even allow typewriters!" His solution is to stick one's hand in the sands-of-the-past, and assume that this will fix everything. Because he's not a technologist, he's an old musician who thinks he knows everything but very clearly does not.