Mastodawn

AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

https://awful.systems/post/6129541

AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot - awful.systems

Dunning-Kruger for everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvmlb1S6ogE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvmlb1S6ogE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA] - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251031-ai-makes-you-think-youre-a-genius-when-youre-an-idiot [https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251031-ai-makes-you-think-youre-a-genius-when-youre-an-idiot] - podcast time: 3 min 57 sec

🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Oct 31

In reality it just makes you stupid, but faster.

obligatory:

David Gerard Oct 31

I’M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY’RE ALL FP4

WatDabney Oct 31

Effectively, what LLMs fo is exactly the same thing that mentalists do - they wait for “prompts” to indicate your area(s) of interest then feed you strings of words that are statistically likely to be well received.

Or in much simpler terms, and by design, they tell you what you want to hear.

Seminar2250 Oct 31

Baldur Bjarnason has a piece from July 2023 called The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con^[softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/] that you might appreciate, if you haven’t read it yet. :)

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Out of the Software Crisis

WatDabney Oct 31

I did lift that basic concept from an article I read, and I would assume it was that one. Thanks for the link.

Wtf I love AI now

I wonder if that’s why you get those folks that defend it so strongly because the chat bot gave them validation through digital ass kissing.

CrayonDevourer Oct 31

You can set them up so that they don’t do that. It’s just the companies running the chat bots set them up that way because that’s what people expect now.

Seminar2250 Oct 31

yeah the trick is to already know you’re an idiot

BlueMonday1984 Oct 31

“you can set the sycophancy engines so they aren’t sycophancy engines”

I’ll take “Shit that’s Impossible” for 500, Alex

It’s still telling you what you want to hear but with a different aesthetic. This will always be the case for systems that can’t even perceive it’s own lies.

Pay no attention to ChatGPT, we purposely trained him wrong… as a joke.

yeah ok

Seminar2250 Oct 31

my face to your foot style

Have you run one? Your claim sounds reasonable to me, but I haven’t tried. Not sure I have the hardware unless I run a shitload in parallel. (If that’s even a thing.)

Your claim sounds reasonable to me,

quiz show “wrong” buzzer, poster disappears down a trapdoor

We did not need ‘AI’ to get to this point… People are freaking out over a mirror.