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AI Knows About Words, Not About Truth
AI is great at putting words together that sound right. But it does not actually know if what it says is TRUE. Big difference.
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- 1The big idea
- 2language vs truth
- 3patterns
- 4verification
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The big idea
AI learned by reading tons of writing. So it knows what words usually go together. But knowing how words sound is NOT the same as knowing what is true. Sometimes AI says wrong stuff that just sounds right.
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- AI: 'The capital of Australia is Sydney.' (Sounds right. Is wrong — it is Canberra.)
- AI: 'Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for relativity.' (Wrong — he won for the photoelectric effect.)
- AI: 'Sharks have to keep swimming or they die.' (True for some, false for many.)
- AI: 'You can see the Great Wall from space.' (Common myth, mostly false.)
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Ask AI a question you already know the answer to. See if it gets it right. Try an obscure fact next.
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