Re:Oops! We Automated Bullshit
by helsinkiandrew on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:08AM
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> 'Textbooks are all you need' ought to be how LLMs are trained so people can use them for their "knowledge work" without bullshit ramifications.
But in many spheres of knowledge there are still a lot of contradictory opinions in textbooks. Why did Rome fall?, What's the best X? In science there have been many schisms: quantum theory, tectonic plates, GMO/Organic etc.
Writing code is probably one of the few areas where just about all content is 'good' - there may be a lot of bad or poor performing code in books and online but the vast majority of it 'works'.
Re:Oops! We Automated Bullshit
by bsenftner on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:43AM
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Very good points. That gives me the idea of specifically training LLMs on each side of the active scientific controversies and then host/publish an event where they debate. Might be very interesting to geeks, or they will hate it. Probably both.
But in many spheres of knowledge there are still a lot of contradictory opinions in textbooks. Why did Rome fall?, What's the best X? In science there have been many schisms: quantum theory, tectonic plates, GMO/Organic etc.
Writing code is probably one of the few areas where just about all content is 'good' - there may be a lot of bad or poor performing code in books and online but the vast majority of it 'works'.