Now I see the creepy side of AI

I was on my MacBook, homing in on Google Maps near the part of Shropshire where The New Saints are based.

I then whispered, quietly, "The New Saints!" Guess what was the top entry when I typed The?

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  • Huge data. Knowledge implies a level of understanding we haven't reached yet. At the end of the day these AIs are just guess the next word machines that are using a huge chunk of the internet as a guide. We showed it most of the net and the words sunk in but it doesn't fully know what they are. It recites them like a magic spell. It can guess the right answer to 'what is 2+2' is '4' because its seen 2+2 lots in text. Ask it what 'what is 36573+64563' and its going to struggle. Those are not numbers its seen.

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