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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago (39 children)

If scientists made AI, then it wouldn't be an issue for AI to say "I don't know".

But capitalists are making it, and the last thing you want is it to tell an investor "I don't know". So you tell it to make up bullshit instead, and hope the investor believes it.

It's a terrible fucking way to go about things, but this is America...

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

It is made by scientists. And we don't know how to make the model determine whether or not it knows something. So far, we only have tools that tell us that something probably wasn't in the training set (e.g. using variance across models in a mixture of experts setup), but that doesn't tell us anything about how correct it is.

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