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The thing is most facts will never be "checkable" because the world we exist in is simply too complicated to be fully enumerated. You basically require a simula
by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
The thing is most facts will never be "checkable" because the world we exist in is simply too complicated to be fully enumerated. You basically require a simulated mind to even begin to grasp the nuances of fact vs perspective vs opinion.
It's far beyond the scope of a few companies putting a few decades and a couple upstart tech people to the problem to make any real progress on understand and producing truth, which is why ChatGPT answers every question like a middle schooler, because it's just simulating understanding.
- mistermann 4y ago> It's far beyond the scope of a few companies putting a few decades vand a couple upstart tech people to the problem to make any real progress on understand and producing truth The accuracy of this fact is itself is subject to the very issue you are noting though! :)
- dragonwriter 4y ago> You basically require a simulated mind to even begin to grasp the nuances of fact vs perspective vs opinion. I’ve done a little testing of this (using HN comments!) and ChatGPT seems to be reasonably good at distinguishing fact vs. opinion. It seems in that limited testing to be slightly more likely to view as opinion things I would view as likely fact claims but where the operationalization intended is ambiguous as opinion, but the boundary between a fact claim with an unstated operationalization and an opinion claim is fuzzy. That doesn’t get a lot closer to checking fact claims, or identifying and deciding when and how to report supporting evidence of them, but I don’t think that distinguishing fact claims is, itsef, as far beyond reach of current technology as you are describing it.