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Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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Post by corbulo »

m-i-l wrote: post #40

I clicked on the article hoping to find information on potential new cognitive skills humans will need to learn to differentiate Large Language Model (LLM) hallucinated facts from real facts, but unfortunately the article doesn't touch upon this. Reading the comments it seems likely that the article is itself LLM-generated blogspam, in which case it won't be aware of the potential for hallucinated facts. I was thinki…

I think noise-era is most apt. Over time people/consumers will lean into a signal vs noise approach to using the internet instead of a whatever-is-put-infront-of-me-by-an-algo-but-call-it-'discovery'.

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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Post by knaik94 »

NhanH wrote: post #20
knaik94 wrote: post #15

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I had a very different experience searching for the same information. It gave me the answer all three times, the first two were on "balanced" and the third was on "precise". Initially I asked it with some context, the same words I would use to do the search myself. It seems pointless to search something I wouldn't do myself. I refreshed and tried your exact query and got a more detailed answer, refreshed and tried ag…

It does work for me now. It didn’t an hour ago when I posted, and I am certain it didn’t work each day since the Brighton match on Saturday (I was curious when it didn’t work, and intended to track it to see when it will) Edit: I tried a different query with “laker latest result”. It answers that the latest game was on March 8th (tomorrow), but it couldn’t find the result. So you might want to try it instead

I am similarly having a different experience than you. It gives me Lakers results and also correctly says the correct upcoming game vs Memphis Grizzlies today. I searched "laker latest result" and "lakers upcoming". I apologizie if there's a different team/game you're referring to, because I don't know it. And like I said, I would normally search using many more keywords. It also corrected me when I queried "laker" with a different sport like football. All on "concise", I wouldn't be surprised if posting the query here on HN has enough people trying it that Bing learns by the time others get around to searching it. I know this is still anecdata.

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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Post by corbulo »

pjc50 wrote: post #53
m-i-l wrote: post #40

I clicked on the article hoping to find information on potential new cognitive skills humans will need to learn to differentiate Large Language Model (LLM) hallucinated facts from real facts, but unfortunately the article doesn't touch upon this. Reading the comments it seems likely that the article is itself LLM-generated blogspam, in which case it won't be aware of the potential for hallucinated facts. I was thinki…

> I was thinking the other day that we really need a new term for this. In 2016 we had "post-truth", but that implies humans deliberately making stuff up to deceive people, for whatever reason, but LLMs making stuff up don't really knowingly do so, and don't really have a motive. There is the term "consensus reality", but the danger is that with more and more LLM-generated content appearing on the internet, which may…

You're absolutely correct on emphasizing the text medium. Neurolinguistic programming isn't just an arcane meme for academics. The most important part of it, it only works if the user cannot separate reality from words.

Marshall McLuhan is really the techno-prophet of our era.

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Post by hungryforcodes »

she11c0de wrote: post #31

I really enjoy learning with CGPT. I usually start by asking a question on a level that I'm familiar with and then follow up with questions that come up as I read the response. This way you tailor the learning process to your specific knowledge level and it is so much faster than reading a tutorial (which is often miss-aligned with your knowledge level) or googling for answers one by one (and filtering all irrelevant…

But how do you know it's true, what you are reading?

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Post by CatWChainsaw »

BulgarianIdiot wrote: post #57
SanderNL wrote: post #47

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Your examples are all physical. Delegating physical action comes natural because we don’t define ourselves by it. We are not strong and not fast. We do not care either, so long as we have tools to help us gain advantage. Cognition however is what defines our very soul. Being human is intricately linked with it in a way that the physical is not. Stephen Hawkings could be an example of that. Ceding cognition presents a…

This makes me recall... the Butlerian Jihad in Dune. The rise against "thinking machines". It seemed like a silly plot contrivance to avoid AI, and focus the story on humans, which we can associate with. But now I'm starting to realize the author may have had deeper reasons to introduce this into the story. Because maybe he saw far into the future, and realized that a future with AI has no humans in it, at all.

I unironically think we'll need one sooner than we think.

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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Post by PostOnce »

Idiot_in_Vain wrote: post #18
PostOnce wrote: post #9

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We just need denser RAM.

Why? My Threadripper desktop PC supports a maximum of 1TB RAM and it doesn't take much space at all.

Most don't; we need commodity RAM to get denser and cheaper -- at $2/GB for cheap RAM, a terabyte is still $2000, and that'll require an expensive motherboard to support.

Otherwise, fewer people have access and progress is slower.

See also: the commiditization of GPUs, once it was no longer an SGI product and regular people could get them for $200, all kinds of GPGPU stuff started happening.

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