G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a “modest test” of AI content on its sites.

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The trial will include “producing just a handful of stories for most of our sites that are basically built around lists and data,” Brown wrote. “These features aren’t replacing work currently being done by writers and editors, and we hope that over time if we get these forms of content right and produced at scale, AI will, via search and promotion, help us grow our audience.”

  • count_duckula ( count_duckula@discuss.tchncs.de ) English
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    3 years ago

    ChatGPT is an engineering marvel in that it has understood the semantics of language. However, it has absolutely no idea what it is talking about beyond generating the next token in a string of what sounds like natural language. I wish more people would understand this nuance.

    • rwhitisissle ( rwhitisissle@beehaw.org ) English
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      3 years ago

      It’s frightening how many people fail to realize this. I’ve had to explain to people that I consider to be reasonably intelligent that ChatGPT is not, in fact, a “truly sentient AI.” If you ask it to explain how refrigerators work, it probably can, but it also has literally no fucking clue what a refrigerator is or what any of the words in the sentences it generates truly “mean” in the same sense that you understand and comprehend language.