| Before the internet I use to laugh my ass of at school friends who would wonder/debate about something but never bother to look it up, in stead they had elaborate collective "hallucinations", they imagined the facts until they were satisfied their answer was well reasoned enough, then they would consider it a fact. We all do this at times (at all ages) but one must learn to shut down the train of thought, stop polluting your memory. I remember one from very early in life. I postulated out loud that Jerusalem, being the birth place of Jesus, must be the most peaceful place on earth. All those loving and caring religious people who work so hard to be good people. That their religions are slightly different shouldn't matter to Jesus message? That the LLM's can consume such huge amounts of data doesn't mean they matured beyond that rather infantile mind set. In the video you linked he explained that training it to learn to say it doesn't know will trigger false negatives. The correct formula I imagine (hah!) is to wonder if the question is of interest to the model and to ask someone else for answers or some help figuring out the question. The human will just have to wait. What is completely hilarious to me is that we all have heads full of learned answers for which we have no idea "why it is so" or at the very least lack that what would have one arrive at that solution. I get what Archimedes realized in the bathtub but what I want is the mechanism by which he arrived at such wild ideas. Could it be that learning a lot of facts would be the exact opposite kind of conditioning? My mind now says this must be why we humans expire so fast. You keep the calcified brains around for a while as data storage but the focus of project humanity must be to create young ones. I will have to ponder this fact free line of reasoning some more. Perhaps I will find ways to convince myself I know something. It is a fun thought that people created AI, we really want to believe we did. If enough pretend it is true no one can take it away from us. If you want people to think you are intelligent you tell them things they already know and hide your sources. |
Most humans are going to outlast whatever they produced during their lives. If anything, human bodies are among the most durable "goods" in the economy. Only real estate, public infrastructure and recorded knowledge (including genes) last longer than a human lifetime. How many of the things you buy and own are going to outlast you?