at frickin last - I wrote this in January and it’s finally been published

archive: https://archive.is/RSU91

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The more I use various LLMs, the more I’ve come to realise that they have a tendency to confidently lie. More often than not, it seems an LLM will give me the answer it thinks I want to hear, even if the details of it’s answer are factually incorrect.

Using these tools to decide and affect real peoples lives is a very dangerous prospect.

Interesting article. Thanks

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Thank you for this much needed reality check. I don’t understand why the Government are doing venture capital’s bidding.

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Labour are all about the billionaire donors these days.

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Presumably ‘AI’ can make simple rules based decisions, if done properly (unfortunately, being the UK government this is a big ‘if’).

But what exactly is sacking a million people supposed to do to the economy?

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Presumably ‘AI’ can make simple rules based decisions, if done properl

honest question: was this meant seriously, or in jest?

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Serious.

  1. Fill in form online
  2. AI analyses it, decides if applicant is entitled to benefits.

Why do you ask the question?

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“AI” in the context of the article is “LLMs”. So, the definition of not trustworthy.

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why do you think hallucinating autocomplete can make rules-based decisions reliably

AI analyses it, decides if applicant is entitled to benefits.

why do you think this is simple

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You should not need an AI to do that if it’s not a freeform text input?

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citation/link/reference, please

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