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Did the AI Explain button replace a more reliable feature?
by gAI 3y ago
Did the AI Explain button replace a more reliable feature?
- cyanydeez 3y agoWith placebos, the correct question is: does it displace more efficacious procedures. I'd say yes. Even if something is a placebo, it's ability to displace better solutions is the problem
- gAI 3y agoI don't use MDN. I'm just asking if they removed something when they added this feature. Characterizing LLMs as placebos or "designed to produce gibberish" is inaccurate.
- tough 3y agoThey could for example only use LLM's to match query's and use as source for responses like many other -docs as AI- implementations do, wondering why Mozilla wouldn't do exactly the same. as Hallucinations are a normal occurance if not doing so.
- gAI 3y agoI agree it's an odd implementation and seems bandwagon-y in this context. Maybe it's the first step in a larger plan?
- cyanydeez 3y agoI compare them to placebos because they can be effective and they can have zero active ingredient.
- gAI 3y agoThat's a fairer comparison that I read it as. I'd say they're more like a pharmacy, usually dispensing medicine. But we don't really know how half the medicine works, and sometimes it hurts people.
- rideontime 3y agoWould you shop at such a pharmacy? I wouldn’t and I don’t.
- gAI 3y agoThat accurately describes all pharmacies. Medicine is hard.
- rideontime 3y agoOh, please. Have you never read the little insert that's packed in with all prescription medicine? Whether the mechanism is fully understood or not, it's at least been studied and demonstrated to have some benefit, and has _specific_ warnings about the ways it's been seen to harm people and how often. Unless you're referring to the scam-filled supplements aisle, in which case I agree wholeheartedly with your comparison.
- gAI 3y agoI was thinking more about SSRI's, which make up over half (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8450889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8450889/) of US pharmacy orders. While we do know that they work for some people, they only work for 20% of people (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK361016/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK361016/). They also come with common side effects that can lower quality of life (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719451/). And we do not understand how they work in the first place (https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/how-antidepressants-work-is-a-mystery-scientists-still-dont-understand https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/how-antidepressants-...). Plenty of parallels with the common lamentations over generative AI.
- rideontime 3y agoYour own links demonstrate the fundamental difference. The side effects have been studied and can be identified. I'm at this very moment taking a break from a medication because I was able to recognize a severe side effect that came up. I can't recognize when an LLM has generated a nonsensical piece of technical documentation; if I could, I wouldn't need to use it in the first place.
- mike_hock 3y agoRelevant username.
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