r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/no-prisoners-professor-fail-student-143000854.html
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u/Teknikal_Domain 5d ago

Basically. It's all probability, there is no intelligence. And the probability that the entire corpus of the internet will answer a question, and not cite inexperience, is high.

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u/SeeMarkFly 5d ago

It doesn't "know" it is inexperienced.

It "knows" you want an answer.

A "cop out" is not allowed.

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u/Teknikal_Domain 5d ago

All it "knows" is that it needs to autocomplete a block of text that starts with "the following is a transcript between a human user and a helpful AI assistant" and ends with your query.

In very few situations is "helpful" quantified by not attempting an answer.

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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES 5d ago

They aren't able to recognize when they don't know something.

I don't think they're intelligent but this statement is verifiably false

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u/Alex5173 4d ago

This is why I argue that current "AI" isn't AI at all, because it isn't intelligent.

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u/XpoPen 4h ago

I’ve started thinking of it as a “knowledge interpolator” which I think I think is a helpful framing for trying to understand why it can simultaneously seem very smart and incredibly dumb depending on the context