The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

@riley This misjudges how and why stochastic algorithms work.

(I am not saying that there is no AI hype, nor that they're ethical.)

@larsmb I'm not entirely sure I understand your point (I might if you fleshed it out some more), but I suspect that a relevant counterpoint you might not have properly considered is, the uncertainty space doesn't have to be flat. It can have an extra axis of plausibility, allowing for fuzzy exclusion of points on it, not just a black-and-white excluded/included binary.

@riley I blame my undercaffeination, you *did* imclude that via the "if you can't tell" part.

My apologies for a redundant reply.