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byJava Pimp ( 98454 ) writes:
We also tend not to put people exhibiting these behaviors in decision-making positions.
Except when we put one of them in charge of our country... Twice....
byTWX ( 665546 ) writes:
yeah, this part stood out to me:
A LLM will be just as confident when saying something completely wrong -- and obviously so, to a human -- as it will be when saying something true.
as pretty much now empowering both ignorance as if it's equivalent to knowledge and experience, and now asserting that the ignorant person's views are fully valid even when based on bogus, "research."
Assertion while ignorant or actively wrong is the sort of thing that a conman does, because the root of what a conman relies on is confidence, that's where the con- part comes from. AI may as well be a conman.
bylarryjoe ( 135075 ) writes:
yeah, this part stood out to me:
A LLM will be just as confident when saying something completely wrong -- and obviously so, to a human -- as it will be when saying something true.
I find striking similarities between LLMs and very confident humans. They both have no problems making statements confidently because they are oblivious to or discount completely any consideration of being incorrect.
I remember on one occasion my coworkers and I went to visit a renowned expert who was a VP and fellow at Amazon, in addition to having a bunch of national awards. During the conversation, we asked him a question, and he responded with an answer that was incorrect, which we knew was completely incorrect because we were experts in that field. Yet, he acted supremely confident ... just like an LLM.
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