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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by dkjaudyeqooe on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:23AM (#25820260)
I know! One day it's going to get so bad people are going to have to deploy critical thinking instead of accepting what they read at face value and suffer the indignity of having to think for themselves.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by gmueckl on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:35AM (#25820328)
Critical thinking won't help you when the majority (or all) of your sources are tainted and contradictory. At some point, the actual truth just gets swamped.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by spion on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:32AM (#25821131)
This is already happening, just with humans networked into social networks that favor quick reshare over deep review
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by inglor_cz on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:15AM (#25820557)
This. Robots can spout 1000x more content than humans, if not more.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by thelastwave on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:53AM (#25822930)
"the actual truth"
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by realusername on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:47AM (#25820395)
I'm going to throw some wild guess here and say that this sudden increase in critical thinking won't happen.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by hooande on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:42AM (#25820360)
10,000 years of human civilization and this hasn't happened yet, huh? Any day now, I'm sure
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by Lewton on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:42AM (#25820740)
Will they also learn to avoid magical thinking like "People en masse will all of a sudden develop abilities out of the blue"?
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by Kuinox on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:23AM (#25821051)
Sadly they don't. They start to believe to random things in and reject what they don't like.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by _underfl0w_ on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:23PM (#25824795)
Maybe that'll also be the Year of the Linux desktop I keep hearing so much about.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by emphatizer2000 on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:47AM (#25820390)
Maybe somebody could create an AI that evaluates the factfulness of articles.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by visarga on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:19AM (#25821007)
This is possible, especially with human in the loop.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by lrossi on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:32AM (#25821581)
Or have the AI generate only fact-based, polite and relevant comments.

Related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/

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