When pressed with an even mildly confounding question, the machine just makes stuff up.
, current A.I. software has a tendency to pamper its users, to supply whatever answers they seem to be seeking. Jonathan asked the computer if it was aware there are two Fred Kaplans. So it replied, Yes, I know there are two. One of the top items on its list of books by Fred Kaplan is, so the machine may have inferred that its author is a computer scientist.
Fred R. Kaplan is a British author and journalist who has written several books on topics such as technology, business, and society. Fred J. Kaplan is an American author and academic who has written several books on topics such as literature, culture, and intellectual history.Here’s the problem with this: My middle name is Michael. I don’t know the other Fred Kaplan’s middle initial. Let’s be generous and assume that it’s H., R., or J. As far as I can tell from Google and Amazon, there are no authors named Fred Kaplan who have middle names beginning with those letters.
Which makes me wonder: If the machine can’t distinguish between two Fred Kaplans and invents false facts at whim, how will it learn how to write good literature, useful technical manuals, entertaining joke books, or anything else that anyone might want to read from a database more voluminous than the Great Library of Alexandria?In other words, at least for the moment, Meta’s planned fate for the world’s authors—“to train machines that could one day replace them,” as Reisner put it—seems, for...
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