Last week I put "was val kilmer in heat" into the search box on my browser. The AI answer came back with "No, Val Kilmer was not in heat. Val Kilmer played Chris Shiherlis in the movie Heat but the film did not indicate that he was pregnant or in heat. His performance was nuanced and skilled and represents a high point of the film." I was not curious about whether he was pregnant.

We are not only not close to human level of intelligence, we are not even at dog, cat, or mouse levels of intelligence. We are not actually at any level of intelligence. Devices that produce text, images, or code do not demonstrate intelligence any more than a printer producing pages of beautiful art demonstrate intelligence.

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DennisP 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Honestly, when I read your first sentence, given the lack of a capital H, my brain initially went the same direction the AI did. Then I realized what you meant but since I already went there, I might have made a similar response as a joke. For the sake of my ego I'm forced to reject your claim that this is evidence of stupidity.

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logicprog 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I was not curious about whether he was pregnant.

I interpreted the question the same way the AI did.

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sosodev 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The model that processes search results is tiny and dumb. You shouldn't compare it to the frontier models that are solving complex math problems.

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StilesCrisis 5 hours ago | parent [-]

On Google, just clicking "AI Mode" gives you a substantially smarter model, and it's still pretty weak. But I assume the OP wasn't talking about Google because it doesn't seem to make this mistake even in a search.

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wang_li an hour ago | parent [-]

It was bing as that is the default for Edge as supplied on my work laptop. It doesn't do this now, but it does do something else quite weird:

search: was val kilmer pregnant or in heat

answer: Not pregnant Val Kilmer was not pregnant or in heat during the events of "Heat." His character, Chris Shiherlis, is involved in a shootout and is shot, which indicates he is not in a reproductive or mating state at that time.

And then cites wikipedia as the source of information.

In terms of cognition the answer is meaningless. Nothing in the question implies or suggests that the question has to do with a movie. Additionally, "involved in a shootout and is shot, which indicates he is not in a reproductive or mating state" makes no sense at all.

AI as deployed shows no intelligence.

	▲	Philpax 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If you asked a three-year-old a question that they proceeded to completely flub, would you then assume that all humans are incapable of answering questions correctly? Nobody is arguing for the quality of the search overviews. The models that impress us are several orders of magnitude larger in scale, and are capable of doing things like assisting preeminent computer scientists (the topic of discussion) and mathematicians (https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...).