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How do you know?
Because I tried the code and it worked.
I meant - how do you know or why did you say ChatGPT taught you?
It doesn't know what works.
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Can you unpack "synthetic knowledge", cause I don't know what that really means.
New knowledge synthesized from existing knowledge. For example, you might know of A and B and maybe think that A -> B or B -> A based on their co-occurrence, but an AI might make you realize that C -> A as well as C -> B.
Ok, that's straightforward, I just don't care for the idea that AI can do it or even help.
You might synthesize new knowledge.
When ChatGPT produces new output, it's not synthesizing new knowledge. It can't even output the knowledge it was trained with, as long as it lacks the ability to tag it in a trustworthy way.
It's not that it's always BS, it's that it's almost always BS and if you don't know the answer in advance or independently, you can't distinguish it from anything within the model.
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A LLM is a generator of misinformation that is maximally difficult to distinguish from real information. How do you use this as a lawyer? I mean, as a stereotypical evil lawyer in a world of naïve people who don't learn from experience, you could maybe use it to win cases until you destroy the justice system. But other than that...
Speaking as somebody who spent thousands of dollars for a lawyer on a matter, with basically no results, and also who used chatGPT, personal research, and common sense to solve this same matter for free, I can only say if a LLM is "a generator of misinformation that is maximally difficult to distinguish from real information" a lawyer is simply "a human who has been trained to maximally drain your wallet without rega…
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