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richardstevenhack's avatar

This week, I had occasion to ask Google Gemini Pro Preview whether I could delete a certain system file on openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux. It said it should be OK. Naturally, I tested that by doing a run through without actually executing the command. The operating system it would remove 173 additional packages, including much of the main desktop environment. Needless to say, I didn't do it.

When I told Gemini this, it said: "Yikes!" :-)

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Henk van Ess's avatar

Wow! Shouldn’t happen!

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E2's avatar

AI has no grasp of "real world consequences" because AI has no experience of the real world. All data is equally abstract.

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Henk van Ess's avatar

Yup, and that is what is the main reason of the problem

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