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Have you met someone who is full of bullshit? They sound REALLY convincing, except if you know anything about the subject, their statements are just word salad?
by intended 3y ago
Have you met someone who is full of bullshit? They sound REALLY convincing, except if you know anything about the subject, their statements are just word salad?
- TeMPOraL 3y agoHave you met someone who's good at bullshitting their way out of a tough spot? There may be a word salad involved, but preparing it takes some serious skill and brainpower, and perhaps a decent high-level understanding of a domain. At some point, the word salad stops being a chain of words, and becomes a product of strong reasoning - reasoning on the go, aimed at navigating a sticky situation, but reasoning nonetheless.
- intended 3y agoWhich would be a good test - and by that test ChatGPT is not reasoning, since it cant get out of sticky situations. Yeah, I think you've got a good example that improves the analogy.
- denton-scratch 3y agoThe finest bullshitter I knew had serious skill and brainpower; and he BS'd about stuff he was expert in. It was really a sort of party trick - he could leave his peer experts speechless (more likely, rolling on the floor laughing). His output was indeed word-salad, but he was eloquent. His bullshit wasn't fallacious reasoning; it didn't even have the appearance of reasoning at all. He was just stringing together words and concepts that sound plausible. It was funny, because his audience knew (and were supposed to know) that it was nonsense. LLMs are the same, except they're supposed to pretend that it isn't nonsense.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoAre you able to give some examples? I'd like to know what it looks like w r.t. LLMs.