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Death by AI

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583 points ano-ther | 1 comments | 19 Jul 25 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.349s | source
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willguest ◴[20 Jul 25 07:39 UTC] No.44622805[source]▶
The "confusion" seems to stem from the fact that no-one told the machine that human names are not singletons.

In the spirit of social activism, I will take it upon myself to name all of my children Google, even the ones that already have names.

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1. michaelcampbell ◴[20 Jul 25 13:17 UTC] No.44624963[source]▶
> The "confusion" seems to stem from the fact that no-one told the machine that human names are not singletons.

I mean, yes, but it's worse than that - the machine has no idea what a "name" is, how they relate to singleton humans, what a human is, or that "Dave Barry" is one of them (name OR human). It's all just strings of tokens.