Post B8VCH0VYyAtQEWAnsu by Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org
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 (DIR) Post #B8V4q9X2bzUyiq71lI by IzzyOnDroid@floss.social
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       RE: https://floss.social/@ramblingsteve/116945912010965459"So basically people became much worse – the accuracy was only one third – but they were twice as confident," he said.…"I'm very much concerned for children, because adults have learned critical thinking. But for children who basically are born with these systems, the risk is that they don't even learn the basic critical skills."#hallucination #confidence #LLM #CriticalThinkingRT: https://floss.social/users/ramblingsteve/statuses/116945912010965459
       
 (DIR) Post #B8V56yG5mMfogJCieG by catsalad@infosec.exchange
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       @IzzyOnDroid I hang around people way smarter than me to get the opposite effect!
       
 (DIR) Post #B8V5D9Ghl1jeZ7R7HE by Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol
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       @IzzyOnDroid Adults have learned critical thinking?Citation needed.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8V5MfUxIThb8AdpOy by IzzyOnDroid@floss.social
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       @catsalad I need to find (and bookmark) that article where someone asked an LLM 10 questions, got 10 answers, then asked the same 10 questions again with the prompt extended by "if you don't know, don't make something up but simply answer 'I don't know'". That round only brought them 4 answers – and 6 times "I don't know"…
       
 (DIR) Post #B8V5YcRMUa7J7bevB2 by TimWardCam@c.im
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       @IzzyOnDroid "So basically people became much worse – the accuracy was only one third – but they were twice as confident"You don't need expensive AI for that, you can accomplish it much more cheaply just using alcohol.(Example: pilot is practising instrument approaches using a PC simulator. Takes a break, has a couple of gins. Practises some more approaches. Reckons he's doing much better after the gin. Reviews the data in the morning and discovers that actually the gin made his performance crap.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B8V80h66yCfJaBEacy by IzzyOnDroid@floss.social
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       @TimWardCam Well, I guess the more general term is "drugs". Effects are comparable, no? 🙊 💨("dosis sola facit venenum" – the dose makes the poison, according to Paracelsus. Did he know about LLMs already, back in 1538, I wonder? 🤔 Certainly not. But, principles remain…)
       
 (DIR) Post #B8VCH0VYyAtQEWAnsu by Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org
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       @IzzyOnDroid We needed to start teaching IT critical thinking 15-20 years ago. Propaganda and misinformation has been shoved down their throats for a long time.