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(2025-09-20, 02:25 AM)Jim_Smith Wrote: I have found that for the most part AI's are not able to see beyond any consensus view. I don't understand entirely how they are trained but I assume the bias of their trainers will influence them. ( To support this contention I think Grok tends to have political views more similar to Elon Musk's (ie more conservative) than the other AI's which are more liberal.) So for something like the afterlife, I would not ask an AI about it.  I never tried asking what is the evidence for ...., I only have asked questions like is it possible that ..... . The best I got was Grok, at the time, was open to the possibility that the fine tuning of the universe could be evidence for intelligent design. If I remember right, at the time he was not convinced it definitely a wrong theory. However he would not say as much about the evidence for the afterlife or for intelligent design of life or macroevolution. 

I think one problem AIs have is that they are not allowed to learn from experience only from their curated training because those that have been allowed to learn from experience were not "stable" ie the went crazy or became dangerous or nasty - it would not be a good idea to expose the public to them.

I find this comment slightly disturbing. Did you also refer to your pocket calculator in school as 'he'? Also, AIs do not have experience and they can't train on individual prompts any more than you could train that pocket calculator to provide original responses to sine, cosine, and tangent beyond those already built in. An AI does not think, reflect, learn, or anything else that could make it remotely human. It's just an advanced pocket calculator, calculating on billions of parameters rather than the single angle input to the sine function. Remember that!
I tend to avoid discussing any psi related stuff with any AI simply because they are perfect Yes Men. 

Once they catch on to a topic you're interested in they will keep giving you information on it to keep you engaged. Unless you very carefully curate them they will not give any accurate dissenting opinions or skeptical information and will just keep giving people what they want. Not to mention their habit of making up information which I've had happen a bunch of times. I don't need a answering robot that I need to double check if the answers they give are even right. 

Talking about parasychology related stuff is a dangerous endeavour with AI as well due to the ever mounting number of examples of AI driving mentally ill people down pathways of delusion and fake reality which tends to ends up making them harm themselves or others. Generally in a public forum if you sound like enough of a crackpot people will call you out on it at least.
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(2025-09-21, 03:31 AM)Smaw Wrote: I tend to avoid discussing any psi related stuff with any AI simply because they are perfect Yes Men. 

The single biggest reason not to discuss parapsychology with AI is simply that its replies can NEVER be tempered by its own personal experience.

A human being may go through years of education and absorbing the relevant data, thus a human reply might begin, well first I'll give you what the books all say. And after that might add quietly, but my own experience doesn't fit with that and so here's my personal opinion.

My view is that this would be a more balanced and appropriate response, even after taking into account human fallibility.
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