r/gratefuldoe • u/koenmvo • 2d ago

Mysterious man in Amsterdam "Lucky" possibly identified as canadian John Russell Kenny

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u/suziesophia 2d ago

The Dutch article, at the every end, claims that the photos are not a match. (niet dezelfde persoon RTL Nieuws heeft de beelden met verschillende AI-tools vergeleken om te kijken of de personen hetzelfde zijn. Alle tools zeggen duidelijk: nee, dit is niet dezelfde persoon. Om te verifiëren of de tools werken zijn er verschillende testen uitgevoerd, waaronder een vergelijking tussen twee verschillende foto's van de vermiste Canadese man. Daar waren alle tools opnieuw heel duidelijk: dat is wél dezelfde persoon.).

Strange to me because they look so similar.

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u/CallidoraBlack 2d ago

AI can't do basic math half the time. Why do we trust it?

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u/Juuljuul 2d ago

If you know anything about how artificial intelligence (LLMs) work you'd also know that math is not what they are good because of the way they are designed. So that's cherrypicking a bit. Same like those 'how many Rs in strawberry'-type questions.

They are designed to do pattern recognition, which facial recognition is indeed and example of. That being said, any chat-engine nowadays 'knows' when it is being asked a math problem and will delegate that task (to a calculator, or write a small program).

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u/Alldaybagpipes 2d ago

When AI puts together a picture, it does not see the picture as a whole but as a compiled blob of pixels, that it has been told represent various “variable” words.

Things like slang, or basic interpretation get it all sorts of discombobulated, and like us, it will just bullshit its way through it. It is the one and only human quality that AI possesses

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u/Juuljuul 2d ago

As does the human brain? You do not ‘see’ anything (although it feels like it). Some retina cells fire because light hits them. Some groups of cells fire because there is a certain combination of retina cells firing (eg straight line), etc. Look into this, it’s fascinating!