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During AMD's Computex 2024 keynote, Dr. Lisa Su was keen to point out how well the company's Radeon Instinct MI300X graphics card performed when paired with OpenAI's latest tools. Unfortunately, the results only proved once again that you shouldn't believe everything an AI tells you.
Dr. Su was demoing Wanderlust, a travel assistant built on GPT-4, and since we're in Taipei right now, the demo was centered around that. Unfortunately, the location of the Computex show, the event where AMD hosted the opening keynote, was completely wrong.
At least that was the case in Taipei. Unfortunately it was almost at the opposite end of the city – using the old location of Computex around the Taiwan World Trade Center is no excuse, since it seemed to point to Chang'an Middle School instead.
To put it generously, Wanderlust was doing whole Taipei itself was the venue. However, if the person recording the demo zooms in on the map, you can see the dots move to specific points. Honestly, if you're just pointing to a map and saying, “This is the venue,” I'd expect you to be a little more precise than that.
Demos can and often do go wrong, but this wasn't a live demo, an AI doing weird stuff on stage and presenting lies as fact. This was a pre-staged demo where someone took what the Wanderlust AI spit out as truth (because it was presented as truth), and gave it as a presentation to thousands in an auditorium and tens of thousands watching online.
This is a perfect example of what the state of AI will be in 2024. You can't trust AI. It may seem fine on the surface, but you should verify everything it tells you. It's entirely possible that it's making things up. And it might send you to Chang'an Middle School.
If you have to go through every single detail of what your AI travel assistant is saying, why not look it up yourself? Or ask someone else? I've been coming to Computex on and off since 2007, so I'm sure it would take me less time than it would take Wanderlust to tell Dr. Su where the Nangang Exhibition Center actually is.
On the positive side, at least Dr. Su's keynote speech just They talked AI and also gave us actual gaming products to get excited about with the announcement of the Ryzen 9000 series CPUs and Ryzen AI mobile chips. This was in stark contrast to Jen-Hsun Huang's disjointed Nvidia keynote, which was missing any gaming talk even though the company made some very interesting announcements at Computex outside of the keynote. The open sourcing of RTX Remix and the demo of Project G-Assist just didn't seem interesting enough to make the cut.
