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>The real problem is none of these technologies should be put in front of users in a way that might give them a patina of authority or certainty. Well, it seem
by kken 4y ago
>The real problem is none of these technologies should be put in front of users in a way that might give them a patina of authority or certainty.
Well, it seems that Microsoft has addressed with Bing in a better way than ChatGPT and Bard by providing actual web references.
Sometimes I wonder whether there is generally a mismatch in expectations. People seem to expect the LLMs to output only verified and true information, when it fact it is subject to fallacies very similar to those of a human due to vagueness inherent to written language. I found that if you think of these assistants as an extremely eager and efficient intern, expectations and reality match much better.
- BaseballPhysics 4y ago> Well, it seems that Microsoft has addressed with Bing in a better way than ChatGPT and Bard by providing actual web references. Lol I guarantee you the average bing user isn't checking those references. They're going to run a search, get a result, and use it uncritically, because the average person has no idea what chatgpt is or how LLMs can go wrong.
- charrondev 4y agoThe people use things uncritically all the time. Many people don’t even read past a headline. Someone who won’t check their source on a search headline won’t check the source on anything else they read on the internet either, which is rife with incorrect information (either accidentally or intentionally).
- BaseballPhysics 4y agoYeah but the difference is a headline is written by a human who will make human mistakes. These AIs make weird mistakes that humans are not well equipped to detect. No human would write an article claiming the JWST was the first to detect an exoplanet, but Bard did, and your average user won't even know to question the answer because it's written with authority. Whatever, I guess we'll see what happens. These companies are rolling out this technology regardless of concerns about safety or ethics so now we all get to live the experiment. I genuinely hope you're right and I'm wrong.