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The Markup 8Narayanan 9

 

Sayash Kapoor and I call [AI] a bullshit generator, as have others as well. We mean this not in a normative sense but in a relatively precise sense. We mean that it is trained to produce plausible text. It is very good at being persuasive, but it's not trained to produce true statements. It often produces true statements as a side effect of being plausible and persuasive, but that is not the goal.
-- Arvind Narayanan. Decoding the Hype About AI, Julia Angwin, The Markup (January 28, 2023).
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