AI Models Collapse to Babel Babble Rabble

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/26/upshot/ai-synthetic-data.html

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. And the LORD said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech." So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused (balal) the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. — Genesis 11:1–9 NRSVUE

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AI- Babel

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AI is the ultimate plagiarist mimicking patterns in human devised data. Its models needs training on high quality data, billions and billions of bits and bytes of high-quality human derived thoughts and information. But, AI output, with its hallucinations and flaws, now has begun to flood into the data sources themselves. Just like inbreeding, the training becomes regurgitative, feeding off its own output recycled. With no way to tell the difference between original and AI derived stuff, the models become dumber and dumber as each model learns from the previous one. Rehashing the trash, disgorging, re-eating its own sick. AI is its own Tower of Babel, the omniscient fountain of all insight, capable of all and anything, is fundamentally flawed and inbred. AI is destined to become a rabble, a Babel babble, incoherent, useless flotsam and jetsam.

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Suzanne Delaney

Date: 8/20/2024 2:29:00 AM

Great insights on AI, John: Elon Musk has warned about the dangers of this technology and advocated early for a stop - until a Regulatory Board could be put in place. Not sure if he was successful. Looks like we are coming full circle to Babel through all this Babble. SuZ