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I remember a story where a newspaper printed a recipe containing nutmeg. Somehow it was confusing so a family put something like six nutmeg seeds in the dish in
by mongol 3y ago
I remember a story where a newspaper printed a recipe containing nutmeg. Somehow it was confusing so a family put something like six nutmeg seeds in the dish instead of six ml (can't recall exact measurements, nor if the recipe mentioned the seeds incorrectly). Poisoning and hospital visit followed.
Edit: this was the story (Swedish)
https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/fel-i-kakreceptet-forgiftade-lasare/ https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/fel-i-kakreceptet-forg...
- droopyEyelids 3y agoYour anecdote touches on an interesting aspect of the LLM discourse, where people assume "the standard" here on Earth is God-like correctness, or perhaps the Perfect Parent that Knows Everything. That was never the case, there was no source of all information that was always right and didn't make mistakes. Even professionally assembled encyclopedias had errors. Newspapers published recipes without explaining the dangers of nutmeg overdoses. Experts in a field might know a lot about a single subject but go outside of that and they'd have as crazy of opinions and believe as much bogus folklore as anyone else.
- mdp2021 3y agoEven in the history of epistemology we learn that paradigms are sometimes overcome with old age and new generations. But in the case of AI there is a paradox: if we did not benefit from tools, if tools were not sought, there would be little interest in the matter.