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Why AI is a know-it-all know nothing
Today’s AI systems can’t earn our trust by sharing the reasoning behind what they say, because there is no such reasoning.
It’s no surprise that Altman wants us to believe that large language models(LLMs) like ChatGPT can produce transparent explanations for everything they say: Without a good justification, nothing humans believe or suspect to be true ever amounts to knowledge. As Hicks, Humphries and Slater put it in “ ChatGPT is Bullshit,” LLMs “are designed to produce text that looks truth-apt without any actual concern for truth.” For those who understand that true AI content is one big Gettier case, an LLM’s patently false claim to be explaining its own reasoning will undermine its credibility.
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