Grok 3 Churns Out Dim-Witted Bog Standard 'Settled Science' Response To What Should Have Been A Very Simple Climate Question
Very unimpressed
This is the first time I’ve even ‘spoken’ to an AI ‘thing’, let alone asked it a serious question. But I saw that Elon was offering a free trial of his ‘new improved’ Grok 3 AI, so I thought, what the hell, maybe I’ll get a really serious scientific answer to a serious scientific question. I was to be sorely disappointed and that will be the first and only time I bother to ask AI anything or to do anything. If that’s the standard of its high level artificial ‘thinking’ then I’ll stick with my own 100% biological grey matter (and that of others) thank you very much. You can keep the chips and the wires and the stupendous electricity requirements of these AI data centres; the human brain requires just a few watts to produce a more intelligent response (well, at least, some people’s brains do!)
A really piss poor response.
It’s now virtually certain (CERES data proves it) that most or all global warming since 2000 - including the spike which started in June 2023 - was caused by a reduction in low level cloud cover, particularly over the tropics.
If I can appreciate this fact, why can’t a ‘new and improved’ advanced, all-singing, all dancing AI costing billions of dollars with lightning quick access to the entire world wide web, running on enough energy to power a large town, also appreciate it, and in fact give me a much more detailed answer, with specific references, than my two comments above? It’s total crap quite frankly and I’m thinking of setting up my own ten dollar AI called Deep Disappointment.
AI is simply the next bogus golden calf that's propping up tech financials in the USA... No different then blockchain really.
There are some interesting edge cases where it's useful to me. Coding/data access (i.e. sql) is already pretty good and getting better.
But for general LLM's it's still and will always be GIGO. Garbage in, garbage out. A fancy search engine curated to spew whatever slant the developers want. That's it.
I asked Chat GPT a question on climate change and it only regurgitated the dopey talking points of the establishment climate change narrative. Its only minor usefulness is that it will give a plausible answer to questions which “google” will suppress, such as the number of coal-fired power stations in China.