On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
— Charles Babbage
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/charles_babbage_141832?utm_source=share&utm_medium=copy
This is what people want from AI. They will never get it, because it is impossible. But they'll loot and burn the world trying to get it.
#AI #LLM
Larry Garfield
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