Comment by low_tech_love
4 days ago
This week I was on a meeting for a rather important scientific project at the university, and I asked the other participants “can we somehow reliably cluster this data to try to detect groups of similar outcomes?” to which a colleague promptly responded “oh yeah, chatGPT can do that easily”.
I guess, he's right - it will be easy and relatively accurate. Relatively/seemingly.
So that’s it then? We replace every well-understood, objective algorithm with well-hidden, fake, superficial surrogate answers from an AI?
"cluster this data to try to detect groups of similar outcomes" is typically a fairly subjective task. If the objective algorithm optimizes for an objective criterion that doesn't match the subjective criteria that will be used to evaluate it, that objectivity is just as superficial.
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