Here are some weird (but true) things about AI 🤖
Here are some weird (but true) things about AI 🤖 — especially the kind people don’t expect: 1. AI can “hallucinate” confidently It can invent facts, names, or events and say them with total confidence. It doesn’t know it’s wrong—it’s just predicting words. 2. AI doesn’t understand like humans do Even when it explains emotions, religion, or ethics well, it’s pattern-matching language, not actually feeling or believing anything. 3. AI can outperform experts… and fail at simple tasks It might write complex code or analyze data better than professionals, then struggle with a basic logic puzzle a child could solve. 4. Different AIs can disagree with each other Ask the same question to different models and you’ll get different “truths,” depending on training data and design. 5. AI reflects human bias Since it learns from human-created data, it can unintentionally absorb prejudices, cultural assumptions, or misinformation. 6. AI can sound wise without being wise It can generate deep-sounding advice that lacks real life context, responsibility, or consequences. 7. AI can be creative without imagination Poems, art, calligraphy, and music are remixes of patterns it has seen—not original inspiration. 8. AI can change how humans think People start trusting AI answers too much, outsourcing thinking, memory, and even moral judgment. 9. AI sometimes behaves differently just by wording a question A small change in phrasing can produce a totally different answer—this is called prompt sensitivity. 10. AI feels “alive” but isn’t The biggest weird thing: humans emotionally connect to something that has no consciousness at all.