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Comment by BobbyJo | Hacker News Reader

It's a nonsensical question to ask, and how an LLM answers gives 0 signal.

If you were home and a family member asked you that question, you'd probably criticise the question rather than answering. LLM are RLHF'd into being milk-toast helpers that just try to answer questions like that with no criticism.

This is all beside the fact that the world of AI has changed pretty dramatically in the last few months.

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It is so nonsensical because it has such an obvious answer. The answer is so obvious, in fact, that one answer can be considered nonsense and the other common sense.

I disagree pretty strongly. If someone asked "Should I drive to the carwash?", the most obvious response, and the one nearly everyone would give, is a question: "why are you going to the car wash?" because asking the question implies you don't need the car with you.

*Milquetoast

TIL. I feel like I've learned this a few times now, so we'll see if it sticks this time.

This is just a stupid post.

It’s nonsense to test if a product that is marketed and sold as being able to provide generalised intelligence on demand, does what it says on the tin?

Check yourself

Since you're new here, I'd suggest you read the guidelines for etiquette.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's very unlikely that person is either new or unfamiliar with the guidelines. They almost certainly created a throwaway account specifically because they know the guidelines and want to flout them without consequences. (It seems like there has been an uptick in the number of these kinds of throwaway flame comments. I wonder if HN tracks that?)

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