Constantly evolving AI training sets could eliminate reality as we know it
LLMs like ChatGPT, and really most models referred to as AI, rely on large datasets of information to inform its predictions. AI, the old adage goes, is only as good as the data trained on. That’s why AI’s trained solely on Reddit posts say it’s genocide’s okay if it feels good. ChatGPT and its successors are better than that, but will likely improve with more data. Those ever changing datasets, however, means ChatGPT’s answer to the very same question posed today could be different in five years.
The AI Stooges assume we, the collective dimwitted public, will of course continue to seed our decision making to chatbots. That means that as ChatGPT’s answers to questions evolve, so too will the public’s general understanding of reality.
“The speed of the evolution of defining reality seems likely to accelerate,” the Stooges predict. “The dependence on machines will determine and thereby alter the fabric of reality, producing a new future that we do not yet understand and for the exploration and leadership of which we must prepare.”
