Artificial Generalized Incompetence

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 day ago

    what if they all come up with that because it has been publicised

    Then I’d ask who published and where they got their analysis from. Very possible that we’ve got an AI that’s built up a backlog of Harvard Business Studies and CalTech economics models to reach the ideal hypothetical tariff regime. But it’s just as likely they’re ingesting 4chan reposts of Ron Paul Newsletters and Michael Savage radio transcripts to build up its economic background.

    That’s sort of the problem with AI. There’s no specialist-driven guidance on what data is valuable and what data is crap. No litmus test to separate fact from fiction or serious discussion versus trolling. And these western developed models, in particular, are very bad about including the origins of their graphed logical output (because that would make the process of hashing and graphing more expensive, in a system that’s already inelegant and resource intensive).

    I just glanced at it and wouldnt know how something like that is even supposed to be, so I dont really know how unhinged the tariff rate thing is.

    The problem is less that we don’t know how bad the tariff rate is and more that the people designing the policies don’t know either. They’re fishing for answers in the answer pond, and they don’t even know if they’ve got a fish or a boot at the end of the line.

    • NABDad@lemmy.world
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      They’re fishing for answers in the answer pond,

      Except, they’ve actually dropped their lines in the stupidity toilet.

    • reksas@sopuli.xyz
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      One would have had to ask the ai about it before all this to know where it might be getting its information from