Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ok what about tech journalists who produced articles with those misunderstandings. Surely they know better yet still produce articles like this. But also people who care enough about this topic to post these articles usually I assume know better yet still spread this crap

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  • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tech journalists don’t know a damn thing. They’re people that liked computers and could also bullshit an essay in college. That doesn’t make them an expert on anything.

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    • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      … And nowadays they let the LLM help with the bullshittery

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      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Are you guys sure. The media seems to be where a lot of LLM hate originates.

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  • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

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    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Whoa that’s like how many colors there are

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    • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      AI cant even understand it’s own brain to write about it

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Neither can we…

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Check out Ed Zitron’s angry reporting on Tech journalists fawning over this garbage and reporting on it uncritically. He has a newsletter and a podcast.

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• AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Emotion > Facts. Most people have been trained to blindly accept things and cheer on what fits with their agenda. Like technbro’s exaggerating LLMs, or people like you misrepresenting LLMs as mere statistical word generators without intelligence. That’s like saying a computer is just wires and switches, or missing the forest for the trees. Both is equally false.

  Yet if it fits with the emotional needs or with dogma, then other will agree. It’s a convenient and comforting “A vs B” worldview we’ve been trained to accept. And so the satisfying notion and misinformation keeps spreading.

  LLMs tell us more about human intelligence and the human slop we’ve been generating. It tells us that most people are not that much more than statistical word generators.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    people like you misrepresenting LLMs as mere statistical word generators without intelligence.

    You’ve bought-in to the hype. I won’t try to argue with you because you aren’t cognizent of reality.

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    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re projecting. Every accusation is a confession.

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  • someacnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Truth is bitter, and I hate it.

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