A senior Texas A&M University System official testing a new artificial intelligence tool this fall asked it to find how many courses discuss feminism at one of its regional universities. Each time she asked in a slightly different way, she got a different number. “Either the tool is learning from my previous queries,” Texas A&M system’s chief strategy officer Korry Castillo told colleagues in…
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“Either the tool is learning from my previous queries,” Texas A&M system’s chief strategy officer Korry Castillo told colleagues in an email, “or we need to fine tune our requests to get the best results.”
False dichotomy. Or the AI tool is fucking stupid, and it is producing garbage responses, because it’s fucking stupid.
Color me shocked that this person in charge of an entire swath of a university system doesn’t know how to apply the correct algorithm for the task they’re trying to solve.
ETA: and of course, that’s before we get into the weeds of the what and why of what she’s trying to find.
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