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> if you do AI research with the idea that by teaching machines how to do X, we might also be able to gain insight in how people do X, then ever more complex st
by visarga 2y ago
> if you do AI research with the idea that by teaching machines how to do X, we might also be able to gain insight in how people do X, then ever more complex statistical setups will be of limited information
At the very least we know consistent language and vision abilities don't require lived experience. That is huge in itself, it was unexpected.
- kleiba 2y agoIs that true though given e.g. the hallucinations you regularly get from LLMs?
- probably_wrong 2y ago> At the very least we know consistent language and vision abilities don't require lived experience. I don't think that's true. A good chunk of the progress done in the last years is driven by investing thousand of man-hours asking them "Our LLM failed at answering X. How would you answer this question?". So there's definitely some "lived experience by proxy" going on.