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by incrudible 1049 days ago
> It has no ability to say: "I don't know"

So do many humans. The expression of ignorance and self-doubt must certainly be woefully underrepresented in training data.

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Yeah, no one posts to say they don't know the answer. It is the smallest of the problems that come from using the internet to train. I realize these are just statistical text generators, but if we do end up training a real AGI on the internet I find that both apalling and terrifying. If I said my parenting strategy was to lock my genius newborn in a room with provided food and water and a web browser, you'd call me insane and expect my child to be a sociopath...