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AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To) (www.tomshardware.com)

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Avram Piltch is the editor in chief of Tom's Hardware, and he's written a thoroughly researched article breaking down the promises and failures of LLM AIs.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry to break it to you, but it doesn't "know" anything except what text is most likely to come after the text you just typed. It's an autocomplete. A very sophisticated one, granted, but it has no notion of "fact" and no real understanding of the content of what it's saying.

Saying that it knows what it's spouting back to you is exactly what I warned against up above: anthropomorphization. People did this with ELIZA too, and it's even more dangerous now than it was then.