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It may describe a number of people you have worked with but it does not describe the average medical textbook which will usually describe the best knowledge we
by discreteevent 4y ago
It may describe a number of people you have worked with but it does not describe the average medical textbook which will usually describe the best knowledge we have of a condition. If chatgpt produces something that looks like it came from a medical textbook then it is hard to blame many people for believing it. More generally, people started to trust computers more than people as soon as calculators demonstrated their reliability.
- lordnacho 4y agoI don't know, I get this feeling ChatGPT has also read all the quack books where the condition depends on the alignment of stars when you were born, or how chicken entrails land when the shaman "studies" it. Those books are also written confidently without giving any sign of being completely fabricated. In the end, why do people believe what they believe? The answer is it connects with what they already believe. That's it. If you had a diet of what we call science, you'll have a foothold in a whole bunch of arenas where you can feel yourself forward, going from one little truth to another. If you are a blank slate with a bit of quackery seeded onto it, you end up believing the stars predict your life and that you can communicate with dead people with a Ouija board. CGPT doesn't have an "already believe". It just has a "humans on the panel give me reward" mechanism, and all it's doing is reflecting what it got rewarded for. Sometimes that's the scientific truth, sometimes it's crap. All the time it's confident, because that's what's rewarded.
- petra 4y agoThis is not a new phenomena. Have most people invested time in making sure their web search results are accurate? It is dangerous for sure, but that's what you got.