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If the only negative effect is some people look foolish, that's an acceptable risk. I'm worried a bit it's closer to people thinking that Tesla has a full self-driving system because Tesla called it auto-pilot and demonstrated videos of the car driving without a human occupant. In that case, yeah the experts understand that "auto-pilot" still means driver-assisted, but we can't ignore the fact that most people don't know that and that the marketing info reinforced the wrong ideas.

I don't want to argue with people that won't understand the AI model can be wrong. I'm far more concerned with public policy being driven by made up facts or someone responding poorly in an emergency situation because a search engine synthesized facts. Outside of small discussions here, I don't see any acknowledgment about the current limitations of this technology, only the sunny promises of greener pastures.



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