Comment by bostonpete
2 years ago
Speech to text is often wrong too. So is autocorrect. And object detection. Computers don't have to be 100% correct in order to be useful, as long as we don't put too much faith in them.
2 years ago
Speech to text is often wrong too. So is autocorrect. And object detection. Computers don't have to be 100% correct in order to be useful, as long as we don't put too much faith in them.
Call me old fashioned, but I would absolutely like to see autocorrect turned off in many contexts. I much prefer to read messages with 30% more transparent errors rather than any increase in opaque errors. I can tell what someone meant if I see "elephent in the room", but not "element in the room" (not an actual example, autocorrect would likely get that one right).
Your caveat is not the norm though, as everyone is putting a lot of faith in them. So, that's part of the problem. I've talked with people that aren't developers, but they are otherwise smart individuals that have absolutely not considered that the info is not correct. The readers here are a bit too close to the subject, and sometimes I think it is easy to forget that the vast majority of the population do not truly understand what is happening.
Nah, I don’t think anything has the potential to build critical thinking like LLMs en masse. I only worry that they will get better. It’s when they are 99.9% correct we should worry.
People put too much faith in conspiracy theories they find on YT, TikTok, FB, Twitter, etc. What you're claiming is already not the norm. People already put too much faith into all kinds of things.