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Synthetic knowledge is still novel knowledge if you haven’t put the pieces together before.
by eurasiantiger 4y ago
Synthetic knowledge is still novel knowledge if you haven’t put the pieces together before.
- vba616 4y agoCan you unpack "synthetic knowledge", cause I don't know what that really means.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoNew 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.
- vba616 4y agoOk, 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.