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Intelligence and knowledge are distinct concepts. Asking about it's knowledge teaches noting about it's intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to learn, reason, and solve problems. Knowledge is the accumulation of facts and skills.

Chatbot LLM's don't have metacognition. They don't know that they don't know. If you peek inside the LLM, the process seems different for things they don't know. They just can't express it because they are trained to produce good probability outcome instead of accurate one.

They have potential as knowledge databases, but someone must figure out how to get "I don't know" information out of them.

parent nabla9 1 year ago

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