Tim Cook is “not 100 percent” sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations

It's kind of funny how AI has the exact same problems some humans have.
I always thought AI wouldn't have that kind of problems, because they would be carefully fed accurate information.
Instead they are taught from things like Facebook and the thing formerly known as Twitter.
What an idiotic timeline we are in. LOL

I'm 100% sure they can't because what they call AI isn't intelligence.

You mean we can't teach a bullshit machine to stop bullshitting? I'm shocked.

It’s insane how many people already take AI as more capable/accurate than other medium. I’m not against AI, but I’m definitely against how much of a bubble of being worshipped that some people have it in.

As others are saying it's 100% not possible because LLMs are (as Google optimistically describes) "creative writing aids", or more accurately, predictive word engines. They run on mathematical probability models. They have zero concept of what the words actually mean, what humans are, or even what they themselves are. There's no "intelligence" present except for filters that have been hand-coded in (which of course is human intelligence, not AI).

"Hallucinations" is a total misnomer because the text generation isn't tied to reality in the first place, it's just mathematically "what next word is most likely".

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/

Everything these AIs output is a hallucination. Imagine if you were locked in a sensory deprivation tank, completely cut off from the outside world, and only had your brain fed the text of all books and internet sites. You would hallucinate everything about them too. You would have no idea what was real and what wasn’t because you’d lack any epistemic tools for confirming your knowledge.

That’s the biggest reason why AIs will always be bullshitters as long as their disembodied software programs running on a server. At best they can be a brain in a vat which is a pure hallucination machine.

I'm 100% sure he can't. Or at least, not from LLMs specifically. I'm not an expert so feel free to ignore my opinion but from what I've read, "hallucinations" are a feature of the way LLMs work.

They can't. AI has hallucinations. Google has shown that AI can't even rely on external sources, either.

If Apple can stop AI hallucination, any other AI company can also stop AI hallucination. Which is something they could have already done instead of making AI seem a joke on purpose. AI hallucinations are a sort of phenomena that nobody has control over. Why would Tim Cook have unique control over it?

Here's how you stop AI from hallucinating:

Turn it off.

Because everything they output is a hallucination. Just because sometimes those hallucinations are true to life doesn't mean jack shit. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

"Only feed it accurate information."

Even that doesn't work because it just mixes and matches every element of its input to generate a new, novel output. Which would inevitably be wrong.

Of course they can't. Any product or feature is only as good as the data underneath it. Training data comes from the internet, and the internet is full of humans. Humans make and write weird shit so so the data that the LLM ingests is weird, this creates hallucinations.

Seeing these systems just making shit up when they're not sure on the answer is probably the closest they'll ever come to human behaviour.

We've invented the virtual politician.

That's what it comes by not really understanding what you're doing. Most of the AI models I work with are the state of the art just because they happen to work.

In my case, when I solve a PDE using finite difference schemes, there are precise mathematical conditions that guarantee you if the method is going to be stable or not. When I do the same using AI, I can't tell if my method is going to work or not unless I run it. Moreover, I've had it sometimes fail and sometimes succeed.

It's just the way it is for now. Some clever people have to step in and sort things out, because our knowledge is not keeping up with technological resources.

Well yeah, its using the same dataset as MS copilot.

Spitting out inaccurate (I wish the media would stop feeding into calling it something that sounds less bad like hallucinations) answers is nothing something that will go away until the LLM gains the ability to decern context.

I'm not exaggerating when I say there's only like a dozen true experts for generative AI on the planet and even they're not completely sure what's going on in that blackbox. And as far as I'm aware Tim Cook isn't even one of them. How would he know?

I doubt anyone can for as long as "AI" is synonymous with LLMs. LLMs are just inherently unreliable because of how they work.

I don't know why they're trying to shove AI down our throats. They need to take their time, allow it to evolve.

They could make Siri change its voice and Genmoji based on the degree of certainty of the response:

• Trust me: Arnold as Terminator 😎
• Eehhhh, could be bullshit: shrugging old man meme 🤷🏻‍♂️
• Just kiddin' here: whacky Jerry Lewis 🤪

They could sell different voice packages. Revive the ringtone market.

Tim Cook..go take your meds and watch Price is Right

I only trust moguls and political figures that are 100% sure of everything. I really like the confidence and it makes me feel like they deserve big paychecks and special rights because they must be so smart to have have no room for the doubt like the rest of us spineless imps. This guy is displaying weakness and should be shamed!

I bet Tim Apple is going to fire his ass.

To be 100 percent sure is a hallucination. Probably he tried to say that he is less than 80 percent sure.

That's like saying you can't be 100% sure you never have fake news at the top of search query results. It's just a fact.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Even Apple CEO Tim Cook isn’t sure the company can fully stop AI hallucinations.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Cook said he would “never claim” that its new Apple Intelligence system won’t generate false or misleading information with 100 percent confidence.

These features will let you generate email responses, create custom emoji, summarize text, and more.

Recent examples of how AI can get things wrong include last month’s incident with Google’s Gemini-powered AI overviews telling us to use glue to put cheese on pizza or a recent ChatGPT bug that caused it to spit out nonsensical answers.

The voice assistant will turn to ChatGPT when it receives a question better suited for the chatbot, but it will ask for your permission before doing so.

In the demo of the feature shown during WWDC, you can see a disclaimer at the bottom of the answer that reads, “Check important info for mistakes.”

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If you want to have good AI, you need to spend money and send your AI to college. Have real humans interact with it, correct it's logic, make sure it understands sarcasm and logical fallacies.

Or, you can go the cheap route: train it on 10 years of Reddit sh*tposts and hope for the best.

Saying anything else would be lying

Tim Apple

Stupid headline, it's like Tim Cook saying he's not 100% sure Apple can stop batteries in their devices from exploding. You do as much as you can to prevent it but it might happen anyway because that's just how it is.

He's only being honest for the sake of the shareholders.