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> They’re excellent when answering questions on topics you know nothing about, and somehow embarrassingly wrong when you actually know the answer yourself… Thi

by mcmcmc 2y ago

> They’re excellent when answering questions on topics you know nothing about, and somehow embarrassingly wrong when you actually know the answer yourself… This just makes me think LLMs must be wrong far more often than we realize. How well can you judge the quality of a response on a topic you know nothing about?

toomuchtodo 2y ago
> How well can you judge the quality of a response on a topic you know nothing about? You cannot, but those pushing Gen AI wave away the probability and liability for obvious reasons. Sell the magic, it'll be someone else's problem when it doesn't deliver.
- chefandy 2y ago
  Not just wrong, but superficially credible-looking wrong, which is much worse. "Fake it till you make it" works fine for some things, but not a large chunk of what they're trying to sell AI for.
sfjailbird 2y ago
That's his/her point.
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