AI's Wrong Answers Are Bad. Its Wrong Reasoning Is Worse (opens in new tab)

(spectrum.ieee.org)

6 pointsPikelEmi3mo ago2 comments

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It's weird to me that people are still thinking of AI as something that can be taught, when of course an autocomplete machine doesn't understand facts.

photochemsyn3mo ago

If you specify a worldview and a context in the prompt, a lot of this can be avoided, but there don't seem to be any real failsafes.

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purpleko3mo ago

It's weird to me that people are still thinking of AI as something that can be taught, when of course an autocomplete machine doesn't understand facts.

photochemsyn3mo ago

If you specify a worldview and a context in the prompt, a lot of this can be avoided, but there don't seem to be any real failsafes.

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