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The tweet in question was posted today. The point here isn't to rehash how LLMs can't distinguish letters from tokens. It's to highlight how Google's AI-generated answer will grab a blatantly false fact from the internet and use it as an authoritative source for its answers.

I love seeing when an LLM encounters a failure mode that feel akin to "cognitive dissonance". You can almost see them sweat as they try to explain why they just directly contradicted themselves as they spiral into a state of deeper confusion. I wonder if their response is modeled after human behavior when encountering cognitive dissonance. I'm curious how they'd behave if they had no model of human defensiveness in their training set.

Anyways I also don't enjoy anthropomorphizing language models, but hey, you went there first :)

How would an excellent human teacher work with such a failing student? Can that technique be something that the AI could model?

Congratulations on your success ratio. If you don't mind me asking, however, what constitutes a "success" in your eyes? I also interviewed and hired / rejected many applicants through my career, but I don't know if we ever discussed our successes as a single quantitative metric. I'm interested to find out what you measured.

I "picked out" this problem to discuss here because I find the process of "approximating someone else's skills" an interesting endeavor without a clear solution. Do you think the current remote interviewing techniques are effective? Regardless of your answer, it looks like it's going to change dramatically. I find that to be interesting I guess :)

Remote technical interviews are over.

Have GPT4o running on the background and have it type out the answers as your interviewer reads aloud the questions. Share your screen and let it find the bugs for you in real time. Never get any facts wrong as you smugly correct your interviewer about the minute details of an obscure AWS Route 53 API.

Just the designers? Tattoo it on the back of everyone's please

You mean like how our law enforcement works currently? Should the government all put trackers on our vehicles instead? It will consistently prevent things much worse than some students skipping class to go to the bathroom, like hit-and-runs.

This is one of the worst ideas ever. It seems like we love to treat students like they're toddlers until they're 18 then all of a sudden we expect them to act like they're autonomous adults. This isn't how you teach anyone independence.

I'd never agree. What happens if I need more than 15 minutes? Will I be deemed a bad student because I simply need more time to do my business? What does this have to do with how I learn?

I doubt they're actually flustered. It seems like they didn't even care enough to learn about what it is.

They just needed something to shove into the scapegoat-shaped hole, and Flipper Zero happened to fit.

My unsubstantiated opinion: Once AI gets to a point where AI agents can act "perfectly like humans", our preconceptions about "friendship" and "companionship" will fundamentally change. We will realize that we can develop deep bonds with AI as we do with other humans, with no "weirdness" attached.

There may still be holdouts, but the society will largely see them as old curmudgeons resembling the people of today who claim that "humans are incapable of maintaining long distance relationships, and you're only fooling yourself if you think you're in love". Or as a more extreme example, people who maintain that interracial or intercultural marriages are inferior to marrying in-group, because "shared experience" is fundamental to love.

All speculation, of course. But I'm a firm believer that humans are foolish and flexible - we're very easily fooled by anthropomorphic things, and AIs are the ultimate anthromorph. Our monkey brains don't stand a chance.

I hadn't even noticed this leap in logic. Good catch.

I must say the demo did nothing to improve my opinion of the current state of voice-based AI conversations.

Ouch. That's not a good sign at all.

Maybe the future is that we no longer have to worry about players cheating online because we simply won't play random strangers online. You can still team up or play against friends, but all other "players" can be bots with varying levels of skills and play styles. Cheating solved.