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Actually, bullshit also happens to have an academic, formal meaning, and it has been defended successfully in the context of AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
by xk_id 2y ago
Actually, bullshit also happens to have an academic, formal meaning, and it has been defended successfully in the context of AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626692 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626692
- janmarsal 2y agoBullshit should only have a formal meaning at the farm.
- cratermoon 2y agoThis SciAm article is, in fact, by the authors of that exact paper and links to it. It surprises me not at all that HN users flagged that paper.
- bryant 2y agoMaybe, but the definition of the term dates back to 1986 by Harry Frankfurt. https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on... It still seems like the term in its 1986 definition is a good fit for what we currently use Hallucination to describe.