Key points
We often blame AI for the errors it makes.
Many of the errors made by models such as ChatGPT are errors humans so often make.
We might have to rethink: Do we want AI to be intelligent or do we want AI to be humanlike?
I feel sorry for artificial intelligence ... It is trying so hard, but when it does what it has aimed to do, it gets blamed for all its efforts. It is continuously accused of errors, confabulations and hallucinations.
When I catch up on social media – quite a task these days – floods of examples are presented demonstrating the errors made by artificial intelligence . ChatGPT in particular seems to get the blame so often that one may agree that it is artificial, but it is certainly not intelligent. It makes mistakes in simple mathematical problems. It doe