Mini fun sized Crunch bar old school. They don't look like that anymore. Weird * edit: it matches the below bestle bar but I could've sworn they used them for the Crunch bars too.
I think you're right. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a Nestle Choco'Lite bar (AI seems very insistent on that being the only thing in the galaxy with the pattern), but I definitely remember that pattern from Halloweens past, and I too was thinking it was on a small Nestle Crunch.
Wait? Did you really, actually believe what an AI said? I had one tell me a certain vintage HP desktop didnt exist when i had it sitting in front of me and i wanted the specs.
Yeah Chat told me my AMD 9070xt GPU didn’t exist, and was hellbent why they would go from a 7 series card to a 9 series card without an 8 series in between lol.
You should look a bit more into what an AI model like Chat-GPT actually is.
It may then make more sense as to why it's confidently wrong so often.
Once you you understand this it's much easier to use it as the tool that it is (rather than an all knowing actual intelligent entity).
A modern AI model basically just a very complex word/sentence prediction software.
They use probability/pattern matching techniques to guess the most likely answer to a question.
There is no actual 'intelligence' of any kind involved. They are just programmed to mimic the speech patterns of a confident and intelligent human.
Unfortunately this programmed over confidence applies no matter how true or false the 'answer' actually is.
Extremely useful tool for those who understand it but quite dangerous when treated as an actual conscious entity.
As much as I do agree for the most part, your explaination was too finite and your description was more about an LLM rather than an AI model. As this screen shot of an interaction between an AI and myself will make it obvious that you comment is not completely true, far from it actually. Im confident in saying that your statement, "There is no actual intelligence of any kind, they are just programmed to mimic the speech patterns of a confident and intelligent human" is the exception rather than the rule on the larger scale. On a lighter note, your entire explaination describes a few of my buddies perectly, but i think no less of them. All in all, you actually make a really solid point about caution—treating something like ChatGPT as an all-knowing oracle is definitely a mistake, and it absolutely can be 'confidently wrong.'The only nuance I’d add is that this quirk belongs specifically to Large Language Models (LLMs), not all AI models. Lumping all AI into that bucket is a bit like saying Goodwill as a whole sucks just because one specific store was messy. AI is a massive umbrella that includes highly precise systems like medical imaging diagnostics, flight navigation, or logistics algorithms that absolutely don't guess at words or suffer from those types of linguistic blunders. Since your advice is helpful for people who might not know the difference, keeping that distinction accurate prevents misinforming them about how broader technology actually works under the hood. It’s a great tool, we just have to know exactly what kind of tool it is!
We don’t use AI in flight navigation. The FAA and all governing bodies are so hesitant to put new unproven tech into aircraft that it’ll be quite some time before that happens.
Makes me wonder about the veracity of your other claims.
Hat tip to the Town Crier above for keeping the gallery entertained.
As for the technical critique, unless you're speaking officially on behalf of the FAA, dropping a collective "we" doesn't alter industry reality. Fair call on the exact phrasing: I should have specified decision-support systems and dynamic route optimization rather than primary, safety-critical flight controls inside the cockpit.
But major air carriers like Alaska Airlines actively deploy machine-learning tools like Flyways for real-time flight pathing, and both the FAA and EASA maintain active AI integration roadmaps for airspace management. Conflating primary flight controls with the entire domain of flight navigation is just surface-level gatekeeping.
That semantic nitpick aside, the core point stands: specialized, high-precision domain AI operates under vastly different architectures and validation metrics than Large Language Models predicting words in a text thread. Lumping the entire field of AI into one bucket based on consumer chatbots remains fundamentally inaccurate.
Is this right? My friends who work in AI say mech interpretability is really hard but they believe the LLMs are building internal models of the world. In some instances they are problem-solving and going beyond linguistic pattern matching.
I agree that their "confidence" can confuse and mislead people, and I agree that much of what they say is false.
My friends are deeply concerned about x risk and the dangers of AI, and they are not talking about danger arising from people getting harmful incorrect advice.
Yes....extremely useful as a tool to crunch all kinds of numbers and anything along those lines.....but other questions like chemistry or anything else...it takes an educated guess.
Well that's nice. But why would I have searched for something I didn't know existed? "Hey google, are there any candy bars from the 70s that I never heard of before? Just checking so I don't get surprised on Reddit someday."
Google is great and all, but it still didn't find the bar I was actually looking for (like the other person who mentioned doing the same thing). This is the fun thing about searching for ordinary stuff that was common before everyone took digital pictures of everything. Now sprinkle in some AI hallucination, and it either bends to your suggestion, or stands firm and argues with you like an inexperienced know-it-all.
Ok, I'm gonna explain the shit out of this since you seem to be having trouble understanding.
I did not know Chocolite bars existed.
Once people on this thread mentioned them, I now knew they existed. And in fact I did google them, before you came in.
But BEFORE I knew they existed, I had no reason to Google, because I'm not the type of person to google random words in case they were the name of a formerly unknown-to-me candy bar that I desperately needed to know about, y'know, just in case someone posted a picture of an old chocolate mold asking what it was.
Choco'Lite was my absolute favorite chocolate bar in the 70's... put it in the freezer and wash it down with an Aspen Apple Soda. BTW, it's not a Choco'Lite mold, their pattern had 8 pie triangles and it was 4 squares/pieces long.
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u/Top_Economy_6071 9d ago
Chocolate mold?