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by yuliyp 56 days ago
But intelligent beings are fundamentally fallible? That's kind of the nature of doing leaps of reasoning: sometimes those leaps are amazing, sometimes they're wrong. It's what's advertised.
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You could do a whole thesis on how industrialization and the invention of bureaucracy are efforts to get reproducible results out of fallible humans.

We don't yet have the luxury of several thousand years of work trying to get LLMs to be less fallible.

> But intelligent beings are fundamentally fallible?

Not fundamentally, only until they're compelled to learn from it. The current crop of AI understands neither compelling nor learning.