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by lbrito 149 days ago
>AI prompts themselves become a giant source of data.

Good point, but can it match the old organic data? I'm skeptical. For one, the LLM environment lacks any truth or consensus mechanism that the old SO-like sites had. 100s of users might have discussed the same/similar technical problem with an LLM, but there's no way (afaik) for the AI to promote good content and demote bad ones, as it (AI) doesn't have the concept of correctness/truth. Also, the old sites were two-sided, with humans asking _and_ answering questions, while they are only on the asking side with AI.
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mapontosevenths 149 days ago
> (AI) doesn't have the concept of correctness/truth

They kind of do, and it's getting better every day. We already have huge swatches of verifiable facts available to them to ground their statements in truth. They started building Cyc in 1984, and Wikipedia just signed deals with all the major players.

The problem you're describing isn't intractable, so it's fairly certain that someone will solve it soon. Most of the brightest minds in society are working on AI in some form now. It's starting to sound trite, but today's AI's really are the worst that AI will ever be.

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dailycardriver 148 days ago
“ Most of the brightest minds in society are working on AI in some form now.”

Source? I haven’t met one intelligent person working on AI. The smartest people are being ground into dust. They’re being replaced by pompous overconfident people such as yourself.

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mapontosevenths 148 days ago
> I haven’t met one intelligent person working on AI.

I get the impression that you don't meet a lot of people in general.

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cthalupa 149 days ago
> 100s of users might have discussed the same/similar technical problem with an LLM, but there's no way (afaik) for the AI to promote good content and demote bad ones, as it (AI) doesn't have the concept of correctness/truth

The LLM doesn't but reinforcement does. If someone keeps asking the model how to fix the problem after being given an answer, the answer is likely wrong. If someone deletes the chat after getting the answer, it was probably right.

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