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Japanese monks and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. They accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset (cdn.bsky.app)

submitted 7 months ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Yeah I like “unintentionally” better as well.

Why do I feel like we are making AI better by having this conversation?

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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

AI will do whatever we do (on average) because that's what it's built to. Making mistakes on purpose may be a useful way of signaling our humanity at some point, but it's an ever-moving target.

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