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Comment by inopinatus

Unfortunately they are trained first and foremost as plausibility engines. The central dogma is that plausibility will (with continuing progress & scale) converge towards correctness, or "faithfulness" as it's sometimes called in the literature.

This remains very far from proven.

The null hypothesis that would be necessary to reject, therefore, is a most unfortunate one, viz. that by training for plausibility we are creating the world's most convincing bullshit machines.

parent inopinatus 1 year ago

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