Jens OhligMar 19, 2023
I wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.
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@johl To get people to appreciate this distinction when communicating with computers you would first need to figure out how to get them to appreciate this distinction when communicating with *other people*.
Mar 19, 2023 at 4:23pmWeb
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDMar 22, 2023
@crumbs @johl This is true much more generally. All the hand wringing today about LLMs ought to also be, and should have been for a long time, about humans playing the same dirty tricks with us. And there's a lot of them, and they are often handsomely paid.