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I think the issue is the authority is worthless. At least with Google you can see the source of those 5 responses and check their quality (i.e. SEO content), C

• staunton 3y ago
  With some LLMs, there are efforts to make them cite sources (of course this is hard). On the other hand, existing LLMs are becoming more truthful over time (GPT4 is more truthful than GPT3, etc.). The possible applications of the technology have known required levels of trustworthiness. As the tools surpass any given threshold, new use-cases become attractive. Already at current levels of performance there are many applications where it's easier to test or continue researching a hypothesis than to find plausible and relevant ones. No source of information is perfectly trustworthy and we have to deal with that. This is sometimes called "critical thinking" and might become a more important skill. There is also a good chance that AI systems can be trained to do this themselves and "fact-check" the responses of others while providing sources and reasoning, which would be one tool to increase the level of trustworthiness.
  • agentgumshoe 3y ago
    Or we could use our own brains, I imagine critical thinking is an important skill we shouldn't really outsource. But hey, we march to the beat of technology. If you come to 'trust' AI for critical thinking, how do you then know when or if it has been manipulated (surely it is naive to think the governments and power centres won't do everything they can to make AI say the 'right' things)?