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Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics (futurism.com)
submitted 1 week ago by StopTech@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

AIs are WAY smarter than half the population. This will heavily skew the results.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We achieved human level AI not by making AI better, but by making ourselves dumber

[–] Darnton@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Smarter in some ways, but in most ways it is just a sycophantic hallucinatory machine.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

in very NICHED and modified cases, like with cancer detection , that is not from commercial sources, even then its extremely limited and very reliant on using so many scans to even detect cancer.