They’re not really being dishonest, per se. They’re just bullshitters spouting bullshit. They don’t care about true or false. Because the truth does not appear in the objective functions they are optimizing.
i think that gives them too much credit, even. They don’t know what is true or false, LLMs can’t even really properly do logic in the way that normal programs can, they just have to emulate logic via really fancy statistics and the fact that the things they’re trained on contain responses to logic.
AI is capable of sounding exactly like middle managers. Some people think this means AI is sentient when it really means that middle management is not.
You can make them honest or you can make them obsequious. Everyone who works in the tech industry wants nothing more than to told they’re smarter and better than an “average person.” So, this is where tech bros, code monkeys, and everyone else in that mistake of a field will drive the technology.
in hindsight, believing robots would be compulsively honest was a bit optimistic
They’re not really being dishonest, per se. They’re just bullshitters spouting bullshit. They don’t care about true or false. Because the truth does not appear in the objective functions they are optimizing.
i think that gives them too much credit, even. They don’t know what is true or false, LLMs can’t even really properly do logic in the way that normal programs can, they just have to emulate logic via really fancy statistics and the fact that the things they’re trained on contain responses to logic.
Are we talking about AI or politicians here?
AI is capable of sounding exactly like middle managers. Some people think this means AI is sentient when it really means that middle management is not.
As a middle manager you are pretty much spot on, yeah
You can make them honest or you can make them obsequious. Everyone who works in the tech industry wants nothing more than to told they’re smarter and better than an “average person.” So, this is where tech bros, code monkeys, and everyone else in that mistake of a field will drive the technology.