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> Humans can be just as confidently wrong as LLMs, and a simple adage applies to both: trust but verify. Trust people who have earned trust (either through qua
by Eisenstein 4y ago
> Humans can be just as confidently wrong as LLMs, and a simple adage applies to both: trust but verify.
Trust people who have earned trust (either through qualifications or reputation) and treat everyone else as good faith actors who are quite possibly wrong.
ChatGPT should be treated as a person you just met at a bus stop who is well dressed and well spoken but has just told you that you are both waiting for the elevator to arrive at the bus stop.
- BoorishBears 4y agoThat's the fast track to get your point of view to be ignored: Pessimism is ok, but that level of dismissiveness isn't really warranted: especially since the conversation forming in public is not just about some specific model you happen have strong feelings about, but the general concept of LLMs and factuality. I wouldn't expect a random doctor approached at a bus stop to accurately answer a question about medicine anymore than I would ChatGPT by the way. Trusting people based on their qualifications and reputations isn't really a thing. If a doctor tells you to take medication X there's a reason you take that to a pharmacist rather than a store clerk with a key to a safe or something: verifying is always a great idea, regardless of reputation.
- Eisenstein 4y agoI'm not sure how the critique relates to my post. Of course you wouldn't trust an architect with medical advice or a doctor with structural materials for bridge building; that was implied.
- x86x87 4y ago> ChatGPT should be treated as a person you just met at a bus stop who is well dressed and well spoken but has just told you that you are both waiting for the elevator to arrive at the bus stop. Ahahahahaha. Wow. This is brilliant mate. I'm going to start using it.