Re:GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about
by chillacy on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:13PM
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Note that humans have multiple modes of cognition, one of them is very much a stupid, statistical approach that works most of the time.
Kahneman and Tversky came up with questions meant to probe that in humans:
> If a baseball bat and a ball cost a total of $1.10, and the bat costs $1 more than the ball, then how much does the ball cost?
Most people arrive at $0.10 quickly (system 1), but you can't arrive at the right answer if you go by your gut, you have to shift into a different mode of cognition (system 2) in order to compute the correct answer.
Kahneman and Tversky came up with questions meant to probe that in humans:
> If a baseball bat and a ball cost a total of $1.10, and the bat costs $1 more than the ball, then how much does the ball cost?
Most people arrive at $0.10 quickly (system 1), but you can't arrive at the right answer if you go by your gut, you have to shift into a different mode of cognition (system 2) in order to compute the correct answer.