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Caught a Microsoft engineer at a conference in Austin last month...
I was at this AI conference in Austin last month, grabbing coffee between sessions, and this Microsoft engineer starts ranting to me about their new Copilot update. He said their team spent $2 million training it to stop hallucinating, and it still told someone that Austin was the capital of Texas. I asked if he was serious, and he just shrugged and said "we're basically just making really expensive random number generators." Has anyone else talked to an actual dev at one of these things and gotten the real unscripted take?
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phoenix_campbell881mo ago
Read somewhere that a Google dev said their AI kept flagging "the sky is blue" as a potential misinformation threat. Makes you wonder how much of this stuff is just duct tape on top of duct tape. The capital thing is funny but honestly not surprising (I've heard dumber from Siri). Bet that $2 million mostly went to paying people to manually tell the bot "no, it's actually Houston" over and over.
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thomas1051mo ago
The whole world's running on janky fixes that'll break if you sneeze too hard.
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