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Re:Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in s... by wizzwizz4 on Saturday May 25, 2024 @02:36PM (#40476953)
The problem of other minds is no reason to throw everything out the window. Humans are capable of being conscious of their reasoning processes; token-at-a-time predictive text models wired up as chatbots aren't capable of it. Your choice is between a possibly-mistaken, possibly-lying human, and a 100%-definitely incapable computer program.

You don't know either "for sure", but you don't know that the external world exists "for sure" either. It's an insight-free observation, and shouldn't be the focus of anyone's decision-making.

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Re:Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in s... by ta8645 on Saturday May 25, 2024 @02:47PM (#40477019)
You've made some interesting points, which are debatable, for sure. But you've failed to address the question being asked about "verifiability".
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Re:Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in s... by vanviegen on Sunday May 26, 2024 @03:23AM (#40480298)
When you ask an LLM to carefully reason step by step before arriving at its answer, that seems pretty much the same as conscious reasoning to me. Of course, when asked to justify a gut reaction after the fact, it will just come up with something that sounds plausible (and may or may not be true). Just like humans do.
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