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Re:Agents Are Not Enough by lostmsu on Friday January 10, 2025 @10:10AM (#42656252)
No, this is the correct answer. This is the answer I'd be looking for if I was asking that question. That you failed to specify the question is a failure on your part.

Even stupid models understand that if I ask them the population of Denmark they only need to give rough approximation.

Re:Agents Are Not Enough by vrighter on Saturday January 11, 2025 @02:57AM (#42664171)
no, i expect the system to answer the question I asked. Not the question it thinks I wanted to ask. The question is not underspecified, because the point of it is to demonstrate how the llm will never tell you it doesn't know. Nor will it ever tell you your prompt is underspecified.
Re:Agents Are Not Enough by lostmsu on Saturday January 11, 2025 @10:06AM (#42666348)
> The question is not underspecified, because the point of it is to demonstrate how the llm will never tell you it doesn't know

I don't see how "is not underspecified" follows from the point you were trying to demonstrate. Yes, you wanted it to be well specified, because otherwise the point doesn't work. But you actually failed to generate such a question cause both people and AI interpret it differently.