Today's Large Language Models Are Essentially BS Machines
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Today's Large Language Models Are Essentially BS Machines
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#2imagine posting such a hot take in september 2023
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#3To me, this is the quintessential risk: It's plausible enough it will fool somebody with authority to act, but lacking competency to understand the information is low grade. Boom! "oh man.. but the computer said it was ok"
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#4imagine posting such a hot take in september 2023
truth is truth whenever its brought to view
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#5To me, this is the quintessential risk: It's plausible enough it will fool somebody with authority to act, but lacking competency to understand the information is low grade. Boom! "oh man.. but the computer said it was ok"
100% going to happen in the near future if it hasn't already happened.
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#6To me, this is the quintessential risk: It's plausible enough it will fool somebody with authority to act, but lacking competency to understand the information is low grade. Boom! "oh man.. but the computer said it was ok"
We already barely question the BS spilled by politicians and corporations. Now they have a scapegoat that wont ever die.
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#7To me, this is the quintessential risk: It's plausible enough it will fool somebody with authority to act, but lacking competency to understand the information is low grade. Boom! "oh man.. but the computer said it was ok"
100% going to happen in the near future if it hasn't already happened.
Those attorneys who blindly used ChatGPT to generate a brief regarding MC99 liability (a field they had no experience in) are a good example, I think. Of course, in that case opposing counsel started looking at the cites and quickly had questions for them...
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#8These models will be astounding in five years. Any hot take like this is click bait. And it's never from the people actually pushing the models forwards. Always onlookers
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#9I'm surprised it doesn't touch on "creativity" which is a form of BS. So is being able to summarize or extract books and papers.
Unless it's mechanical work, it requires some form of BS, and that's why we've traditionally been so much better at this than machines. We've never been able to create "BS machines" before, so this completely shifts the paradigm.
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#10They're not focused on being informationally accurate, they're optimized to be articulate