Artificial Intelligence — Not So Intelligent. Yet?

Last month, I tried my hand at GROK, the Artificial Intelligence program developed by ubiquitous genius and champion of free speech Elon Musk. Last night, I used ChatGPT for the first time. GROK has been around for over a year; ChatGPT has been around for twice as long. My conclusion so far is that neither of these programs in particularly intelligent.

My initial results with GROK can be found in this video here. I revisited the program the night before last. Below are the results.

First, I asked for a list of women prosecuted for making false rape allegations in Scotland. As can be seen, this list is extremely disappointing, it contains a single entry for a notorious serial false accuser from the north of England, although it does not claim Eleanor Williams was prosecuted north of the border.

I had asked the same question previously, and after some prompting it gave the names of another notorious serial false accuser (Jemma Beale) and Gail Sherwood. Neither of these false accusers were prosecuted in Scotland.

This may not be a pleasant subject but it is one I know quite a lot about because in June 2016, I set up The International False Rape Timeline which has had its own domain since October 2019. There are dozens of false rape reports from Scotland dating back to December 1760 although the first adult woman to be named for making an overt false allegation of rape was Frances Lawlor in September 1986.

Why was GROK unable to find this? Because, clearly, it is limited in scope. These types of Artificial Intelligence programs are Large Language Models. They are said to “scrape” the Internet for information and assemble it in order to answer questions posed to them. Can they really be said to be intelligent? Yes, but only in the same sense your computer, your wristwatch, a wind-up clock, are intelligent. An LLM does what it is programmed to do; it doesn’t “understand” what it is doing because understanding requires consciousness. Unlike a watch or a clock which will continue to do what it is “instructed” to do until something stops it, LLMs come up with all sorts of bizarre stuff, and at times they “hallucinate”, as will be seen shortly.

Next, I asked GROK an entirely new question: what is the earliest record of Negroes in the British lsles?

That may be an unfashionable word but it is perfectly correct grammatically. I specified Negroes because not every person born south of the Sahara can be so identified. Including Elon Musk! Here is GROK’s response.

This reference to individuals “of African descent” is a piece of sophistry used by fake historians like David Olusoga, covered in a previous article. There were indeed some Africans who served in the Roman army, but they were not Negroes anymore than the Emperor Septemius Severus or Ludwig van Beethoven were. Similarly fanciful claims have been made about many famous historical figures.

The reference to the black person in the 1241 version of the famous Domesday Book looks like a transvestite wearing high heels and is hardly proof of a Negro presence in England; Jesus can also be found in its pages, and whatever William Blake may have written centuries later, he never visited England either.

Pushed on this issue, GROK came up with Ivory Bangle Lady, again, another piece of Afrocentric propaganda.

Finally, after a great deal of thought, I asked in which episode of The Morecambe & Wise Show a married couple had appeared. Married couples in show business do not always have the same surname, for example, the songwriting duo Tony Hatch and (the late) Jackie Trent were married in 1967 but were always known as such, not Mr & Mrs Hatch. I knew that at least one married couple had appeared with Morecambe & Wise, but was astounded when they were given as Elton John and Renate Blauel in their 1977 Christmas show.

I was a massive Elton John fan in the 1970s, but you didn’t have to be a fan to know that his wedding to German sound engineer Renate took place on Valentine’s Day, 1984 in Sydney, Australia. They first met the previous year. Eric Morecambe died in May 1984, two weeks after his fifty-eighth birthday.

How on Earth did GROK come up with that 1977 appearance?

Switching to ChatGPT, I asked it the same question, and was told the married couple concerned was Terry Scott and June Whitfield. Wrong again!

Terry Scott was a comedy actor. The slightly older June Whitfield, who died in December 2018 at the advanced age of 93, was a comedy actress and also a very fine character actress. Both married, but not each other. Scott was married and divorced then married to his second wife until he died aged only 67. June was married once and survived her husband.

However, she and Scott were married, but only in a TV sitcom called Terry And June. June Whitfield appeared with Morecambe and Wise twice; Terry Scott did not at all, apparently. There may have been more than one, but one married couple who most definitely appeared with Morecambe and Wise were Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson.

Returning to the other (ugly) subject, here is the ChatGPT response, below. Again, no meaningful information, only feminist propaganda.

So what do we learn from all the above? Principally, that LLMs do not understand the information they retrieve – understand not in a human sense, but in a computer sense. They are unable to distinguish between a real spouse and a fictional one. Also, they do not appear to understand time, because Elton John did in fact appear with Morecambe and Wise in their 1977 Christmas special, but obviously not with a woman he would meet only in 1983 and marry the following year.

They are also very limited, at the moment; they need to “scrape” the entire Internet as far as possible. Then learn to distinguish truth from fiction, including absolute rubbish.