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Dirtying the car on the way there?
The car you're planning on cleaning at the car wash?
Like, an AI not understanding the difference between walking and driving almost makes sense. This, though, seems like such a weird logical break that I feel like it shouldn't be possible.
You're assuming AI "think" "logically".
Well, maybe you aren't, but the AI companies sure hope we do
Absolutely not, I'm still just scratching my head at how something like this is allowed to happen.
Has any human ever said that they're worried about their car getting dirtied on the way to the carwash? Maybe I could see someone arguing against getting a carwash, citing it getting dirty on the way home โ but on the way there?
Like you would think it wouldn't have the basis to even put those words together that way โ should I see this as a hallucination?
Granted, I would never ask an AI a question like this โ it seems very far outside of potential use cases for it (for me).
Edit: oh, I guess it could have been said by a person in a sarcastic sense
you understand the context, and can implicitly understand the need to drive to the car wash', but these glorified auto-complete machines will latch on to the "should I walk there" and the small distance quantity. It even seems to parrot words about not wanting to drive after having your car washed. There's no 'thinking' about the whole thought, and apparently no logical linking of two separate ideas
It's not just a copy machine, it learns patterns...without knowing why the fuck.
I guess I'll know to be impressed by AI when it can distinguish things like sarcasm.