I can’t imagine people going to Wikipedia with political questions. It works fine if you want to know what fascism is. Info about the Nixon presidency has seen some controversy.
As to history and science, if you spot an error or weak entry I find it easy to add info provided you can back up what you say with references.
Not perfect. Its all volunteers. But it works for me.
this is not true - if it were, OpenAI would be profitable, and they are not remotely profitable. I challenge anyone to put a value on anything they are harvesting from users. I will suggest it is mostly worthless. They want to train on my stupid little queries? let ‘em. they don’t make a dime from it.
Consider the possibility that articles written by hundreds of thousands of volunteers and edited by millions of others over time (i.e. a great swath of humankind) fall generally in the middle of the bell curve, which is to say “not particularly biased”. But with exceptions.
The other possibility is that your perspective is the one that is “biased”, not everyone else’s.
Just a thought.
174 UN resolutions against Israel over the last ten years. Several times all the other UN resolutions combined. I am glad some folks worry about bias. I am concerned others are unclear about it.
So they recruited you to be a “beta tester”. Ultimately what you did is what this author thinks the future of AI will be. Made some good points about speed and privacy.
That is a bit odd. There are a lot of things you can’t uninstall because they are fundamental to the operation of the device. But this was an option add-on.
I haven’t installed any AI app. If I have a question, I type it into my browser, and the “net sifter” gives me answers. That’s all I need, so I haven’t bothered with the “try Gemini” come-ons. I suspect at some point it will be part of a mandatory update, at which point I will have to go into settings and shut it all down as much as I can. I’m sorta used to that. Every app wants access to my camera, and contacts, and notifications. I always go and turn all that stuff off (unless it’s vital to the operation of the app). Makes for a much quieter user interface.
Husband warns people that I my hatred of calls for attention from internet connected crap* is close to murderous. I am amazed that people are so unprotective of their own peace and thoughts.
Agreed. I receive very few notifications. Messages (“texts”), Google chat, gmail, our security cameras, and reminders that I set (Google Keep). That’s pretty much it. I don’t have most social media, and the few I do have I disabled notifications (e.g. I post photos on Instagram occasionally, but I don’t care if someone else posted…I’ll see it when I see it if it’s someone I follow, or not at all if it’s someone I don’t).
Consider that there are a handful of major religions practiced by a great swath of humankind, why are they different, why don’t they all, fall into the same the middle of the bell curve?
Just a question.
The Captain
Not at all the same. Religions are mystical cultural artifacts, drilled into children and propagated through rigid social structures, inculcating followers with a “divine” set of rules which may not be challenged.
Information, or specifically Wikipedia is quite the opposite, open to anyone, no particular hierarchy, and factually based (not always, but someone else will come along and correct errant entries usually).
Religion is the Pied Piper, leading people in one direction. Facts are the opposite, generally stable pieces of knowledge/information which do not change (much) until better information is proven. I don’t think you can say that about Religion, which clings to the same beliefs no matter when the evidence shows.
(I acknowledge the use of religion in early hunter/gatherer societies for forming bonds among vulnerable tribes, and the thousands of belief systems demonstrates to me, at least, that humans have a propensity to “follow” and cling to the past even when the “truths” that proved successful in surviving are long past - hence the ever reducing beliefs in religion since the Renaissance and the following scientific revolutions. Slowly, and in fits and starts admittedly, but the trend is undeniable, particularly compared to, say, the first millennium when religion was all people had to explain the mysteries of the world.)
Politics is religion by another name.
The Captain
No. Politics came first — humans and their ancestors learning to live together, however idiotic, rude, and hopelessly stupid so many of our fellow beings are. Religion mostly emerged out of politics (Sumerian proles worked happier and harder if they knew the orders emerging from the temple were because “God”, and that jerk called the king giving the orders via his bureaucracy is also simply following divine orders….
…and then religion evolved much further.
I always thought they arose more or less simultaneously. Not that I would know how to prove that. But the guy who says he’s speaking to the deity has a lot of influence. Not dissimilar to today, in fact. I’m sure it didn’t take early hominids long to figure that out, and the priest-class would have arisen (possibly/probably also as the ruling class).
Close enough for my purposes. Both are about power.
The Captain
Ad companies do it all the time.
Just like a little toddler running around asking “why” to everything, that is the current state of AI. Einstein’s first words weren’t E=mc2. At a certain level, all the free queries are free baby sitting/tutoring.
Politics and religion exist in discernable proto forms (a powerful spirit lives up in those rocks, and crows are its friends and fly around and then tell it stuff from far off) within nomadic and hunter gatherer cultures. However, Religion with a big R (God wants YOU to work TODAY weeding the new irrigated barley field) does not show up until large scale division of labor (Politics!), as in Sumer, Egypt, Chin, and Mayan/Toltecan civilizations.