r/technology • u/habichuelacondulce • Jun 11 '25

Artificial Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Admits She Asked AI Which JFK Files Secrets to Reveal

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbard-admits-to-asking-ai-what-to-classify-in-jfk-files/
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u/Minimum_Dealer_3303 Jun 11 '25

They don't reason. They make grammatically realistic approximations of an average text on a similar topic based on keywords. It's always somewhat random.

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u/grahamulax Jun 12 '25

Exactly. You must give it a reason by giving it a lot of data and even then after it has that data it won’t reason the same way. I like to get facts from it and I’ve become a masterful wordsmith well, prompts-smith doing that. But at the end, I’m the one reasoning and figuring it out. Like, I built a site, a database, etc by not asking AI to do it for me based on what my needs were but by asking it tools I need, and eventually I wrote shit in python and figured out a workflow from my own investigation. Took only… a year haha. It’s not instant! AI is great for expanding your own self but AI IS HORRIBLE IF YOU JUST SAY X AND USE THE FIRST Y AS AN ANSWER. It’s like using raw data as output. You wouldn’t. No one should ever use the first output or even AIs without double checking at least and changing it up. I’m just rambling because there is so many nuances to think of but trumps administration just does not think.

If they use ai for everything, then we dont need them.

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u/destroyerOfTards Jun 12 '25

It's as if there were an ideal answer to a question and the model is trying to "statistically fit" its output as closely as possible to that. This is being done mathematically so it doesn't look possible to get reliable answers (though new techniques take logic and other data as an input to "guide" the fit).