{"id":211326,"date":"2026-02-08T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/the-case-of-the-skyscraper-and-the-slide-trombone\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:20:10","slug":"the-case-of-the-skyscraper-and-the-slide-trombone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/the-case-of-the-skyscraper-and-the-slide-trombone\/","title":{"rendered":"the case of the skyscraper and the slide trombone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/when-ai-goes-haywire-the-case-of-the-skyscraper-and-the-slide-trombone-272763\">the case of the skyscraper and the slide trombone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/when-ai-goes-haywire-the-case-of-the-skyscraper-and-the-slide-trombone-272763\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/when-ai-goes-haywire-the-case-of-the-skyscraper-and-the-slide-trombone-272763<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-08 12:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now part of our everyday life. It is perceived as \u201cintelligence\u201d and yet relies fundamentally on statistics. Its results are based on previously learned patterns in data. As soon as we move away from the subject matter it has learned, we\u2019re faced with the fact that there isn\u2019t much that is intelligent about it. A simple question, such as \u201cDraw me a skyscraper and a sliding trombone side-by-side so that I can appreciate their respective sizes\u201d will give you something like this (this image has been generated by Gemini):<\/p>\n<p>              <span class=\"caption\">AI-generated images, in response to the prompt: \u2018Draw me a skyscraper and a sliding trombone side-by-side so that I can appreciate their respective sizes\u2019 (left by ChatGPT, right by Gemini).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This example was generated by Google\u2019s model, Gemini, but generative AI dates back to the launch of ChatGPT in November\u00a02022 and is in fact only three years old. The technology has changed the world and is unprecedented in its adoption rate. Currently, 800\u00a0million users rely on ChatGPT every week to complete various tasks, according to OpenAI. Note that the number of requests tanks during the school holidays. Even though it\u2019s hard to get hold of precise figures, this goes to show how widespread AI usage has become. Around one in two students regularly uses AI.<\/p>\n<h2>AI: essential technology or a gimmick?<\/h2>\n<p>Three years is both long and short. It\u2019s long in a field where technology is constantly changing, and short when it comes to social impacts. And while we\u2019re only just starting to understand how to use AI, its place in society has yet to be defined \u2013 just as AI\u2019s image in popular culture has yet to be established. We\u2019re still wavering between extreme positions: AI is going to outsmart human beings or, on the contrary, it\u2019s merely a useless piece of shiny technology.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a new call to pause AI-related research&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/when-ai-goes-haywire-the-case-of-the-skyscraper-and-the-slide-trombone-272763\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the case of the skyscraper and the slide trombone https:\/\/theconversation.com\/when-ai-goes-haywire-the-case-of-the-skyscraper-and-the-slide-trombone-272763 Publish Date: 2026-02-08 12:22:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/710774\/original\/file-20251201-56-q12a0x.png?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C0%2C1982%2C991&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-211326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211328,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211326\/revisions\/211328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}