“our AI has messed up completely.”
No, it worked as designed. Generative AI simply creates content of the type that you specify, but has no concept of truth or facts.
No, it worked as designed. Generative AI simply creates content of the type that you specify, but has no concept of truth or facts.
The design of it is based on the intention of the people creating it, not the actual outcome, and it's pretty clear from all available information, plus a general understanding of incentives, that it's designed to be as accurate as possible, even if it does make errors.
ETA:
To elaborate a bit: based on your response, it seems like you don't think my question is a valid one.
If you don't think it's a valid question, I'm curious to know why not.
If you do think it's a valid question, I'm curious to know your answer.
Why not? We have optimised for truth and we are predicting the best words that ensure this optimal value.
LLMs have static weights, therefore they cannot not have a concept of truth. If the world changes, they insist on the information that was in their training data. There is nothing that forces an LLM to follow reality.