Truth is clearly going to be a casualty of the LLM era. These systems don’t understand truth, and can and will be misused by those don’t care about the truth to undermine the truth.
Truth is clearly going to be a casualty of the LLM era. These systems don’t understand truth, and can and will be misused by those don’t care about the truth to undermine the truth.
@GaryMarcus The truth discovery that happens is chaotic and affinitive. Truth emerges only after careful stratification of all the chaos by the human interpreter. It is not the easy single source of truth that we hoped for, but very useful nonetheless.
Truth has long been purposely obscured. AI can do what most current sources of information refuse to do: Present all sides of an argument in a clear & concise manner, allowing the user to decide.
@GaryMarcus I'm having difficulty understanding your worldview of the notion of truth and AI.
@GaryMarcus "These systems don’t understand truth, and can and will be misused by those don’t care about the truth to undermine the truth" is your good statement anh Gary!!
@GaryMarcus "and will be misused by those don’t care about the truth to undermine the truth." And they will be thrilled to use it on all of us. x.com/m1ndprison/sta…
@GaryMarcus "and will be misused by those don’t care about the truth to undermine the truth." And they will be thrilled to use it on all of us. x.com/m1ndprison/sta…
@GaryMarcus Where do you find this "truth" that we are about to lose? Is it @nytimes, @WhiteHouse, @WSJ, just where is it? Are you and the parrot crew the arbiters of truth? I appreciate the offer but would rather decide for myself.
@GaryMarcus Millions of people didn't understand the truth about covid 19 . Problem with truth and belief in so called "experts" was always a problem.
@GaryMarcus *humans* don't understand truth. that's why LLMs don't understand truth. if the internet were chock-full of text in which humans express their understandings of truth, LLMs would understand truth. right? so, what's the problem? neither LLMs nor humans understand truth. right?
@GaryMarcus Truth was on the ropes even before the arrival of LLM’s. The question is—will this be the knockout punch?