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Bluetus

(3,312 posts)
9. No AI has ANY reasoning capability
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 10:13 PM
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It is all just statistics / probabilities based on fragments it has absorbed. That can be enormously useful, particularly in cases requiring collation of information, but any process requiring reasoning is fraught.

If you want to know how to handle error code 23Bz5758a from the ButtFiddle app, AI can give some useful answers very quicjly, as long as some homan has previously investigated and found solutions. AI might give you 5 answers, 4 of which are way off the mark. But they come quickly, so even a low hit rate might still be useful.

But don't expect AI to do any fact checking. That requires reasoning and critical thinking. There is no thicking, critical or otherwise with AI. It is jest an amazingly complex table lookup , pattern-matching system.

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No AI has ANY reasoning capability Bluetus Thursday #9
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What if . . . AverageOldGuy Thursday #15
A hole in the Matrix. SergeStorms Yesterday #18
This appears to have been patched, alas. Pinback Thursday #16
I've found with Google AI, you can sometimes get completely different answers by rephrasing a question William Seger Thursday #17
Yeah, I tried a few variations in this case. Pinback Yesterday #23
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LMAO @ picture at the link Earth Bound Misfit Yesterday #20
Don't get my hopes up MrsCheaplaugh Yesterday #21
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... orangecrush Yesterday #25
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If only Ineedamoment Yesterday #27
Spending billions on rehashed garbage RussBLib Yesterday #29
Exactly!!! oasis 16 hrs ago #32
Didn't we learn the old adage "Garbage in, garbage out" a few decades ago? Midnight Writer Yesterday #30
Must have confused him with some other cur. nt eppur_se_muova 16 hrs ago #31
Lol Matthew28 16 hrs ago #33
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