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Jack Shanahan's avatar

Thanks for a superb post. So very well said.

I spoke with a defense journalist last week. He's publishing a story soon on LLMs for government use. He decided to query ChatGPT and several other LLMs about me (he knows me). Despite the fact that a single-source, official Air Force biography can be found in less than a second and that tells you almost everything about my background and experiences, these systems provided "facts" about me that were completely, utterly wrong. Pure hallucinations.

Even if I risk conflating short-term AI apples with long-term AI oranges with this example, it's still illustrative of the issues you raise in this Substack.

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juggy@mmm.com's avatar

Agree with your sentiments. What we need is as you point out "Open" "AI". Transparency on how these models are constructed and research into why and when the emergent properties they exhibit occur. Intelligence of any kind cannot be bottled up by a single company or a few. Needs to be open to benefit humanity and regulations in place to avoid harm. We need a FDA for AI and randomized control trials popular in drug trials.

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