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Current LLMs are lacking introspection, plausibility checking, consulting external sources, and belief updating in the presence of new evidence. All of these yo
by sieste 2y ago
Current LLMs are lacking introspection, plausibility checking, consulting external sources, and belief updating in the presence of new evidence. All of these you'd need to replace human teachers and it's not clear that the next token prediction paradigm can ever emulate these features reliably. So "outperforming teachers", while not impossible, is a very optimistic expectation as it requires more than mere improvement on existing methodology.
- jdietrich 2y agoMaybe I was particularly unfortunate, but none of my human teachers had any of those features. There was one inviolable source of truth in my classrooms - the examination syllabus and the accompanying textbook.
- wholinator2 2y agoThat's sad. Probably you were particularly unfortunate. Though i definitely do know people who echo your sentiment. I'm wondering at what level of education this occurred? A 2nd grade teacher requires a different set of introspection capabilities than a high school calculus teacher than a college world history class. Possibly I'm particularly fortunate but at all levels i have at least had experienced with teachers that had the proper introspection. Emotional introspection and reflection in grade school and high school. And academic introspection and curiosity in high school and college. Certainly there are some bad eggs, but my small state school was rife with professors there for the love of learning. Our learning and theirs.