alt Hacker News> It's a clear illustration that these systems are not oracles.
Of course they are not oracles. Oracles belong to magic, these things are real.
I really can't understand how people seem to expect "intelligence" to be deterministic and infallible and uniform across domains when all examples we have of it (that is, us) are anything but.
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> I really can't understand how people seem to expect "intelligence" to be deterministic and infallible and uniform across domains when all examples we have of it (that is, us) are anything but.
I’m sure there are people who think putting glue on a pizza is acceptable but we’re not hiring them to bake pizzas for us.
When I search and get an AI summary it’s either correct or useless. I don’t care how fallible humans are, I’m not asking them to summarize my Google results.
> I really can't understand how people seem to expect "intelligence" to be deterministic and infallible
We don't really expect this of intelligence
We do sort of expect this of machines
Most people in society use machines and computers expecting very deterministic behavior, within some constraints. A saw cuts wood as long as your blade isn't dull. A computer shows your emails as long as the power and Internet is not out.
Comparably Unconstrained computer AI systems are still extremely new and there is no social norms or expectations around it yet