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Artificial Intelligence

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AI will ultimately fail. This is inevitable.

Back to the subject matter.

For some time now I have absolutely no doubt language models have not only been scraping this website but asking questions to fill in knowledge gaps.

AI can probably now answer questions on subject matter in this space better than any single human being on the planet. But at what cost???
 
I've tried asking the ChatGPT growing questions before. It can even let you upload pictures and analyze them.

I'd guess it's about as accurate as Reddit. Which is to say, not accurate at all. The answers are decent half the time, and half the time it leads you down a wild goose chase that's worse than anything you ever could have come up on your own. If someone followed only ChatGPT to grow weed from beginning to end, they'd kill their plants.

Which makes sense because from what I understand they trained it on Reddit and the internet at large, so it naturally makes all the same mistakes.

If there was an AI trained it just on the GWE grow forum and Groweeedeasy.com it would be a lot more accurate about how to grow weed.

But I literally asked about how to start plants stronger in hydro and it told me to buy a 200W UV light and keep it 12" from the seedlings. Which would clearly fry them. When I looked at the source of information it linked me to some spammy UV light website selling their questionable product. They didn't even talk about weed.

So it's using marketer's own words as an official source of information. That alone is part of why we need to make sure we're talking to actual growers. I swear most of the seed and equipment companies don't have a single person at the top who grows weed.

The thing that's really cool about this forum and growweedeasy.com in general, is everything here is written by humans and people share their plant pictures so you know they're actual home growers.
 
To your point....This is a snip from a recent chat on ChatGPT.

"On the cannabis side specifically

I also think you've uncovered another limitation.

There is an enormous amount of anecdotal cannabis growing information online. Much of it conflicts, much of it is based on personal experience rather than controlled experiments, and even experienced growers disagree.

That means I have to be especially disciplined about distinguishing:

manufacturer recommendations,
breeder recommendations,
plant physiology,
and grower lore.

I didn't always do that. At times I blurred those together and presented them with more confidence than was warranted."


I tried testing the bot for accuracy and found it talking in circles. I gave it a little Okie speak and told it around here we call that talking out your ass.
 
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