alt Hacker NewsThe author is a healthy person but the computer program still gave him a failing grade of F. It is irresponsible for these companies to release broken tools that can cause so much fear in real people. They are treating serious medical advice like it is just a video game or a toy. Real users should not be the ones testing these dangerous products.
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What LLM should the LLM turn to ask if what the user is asking is safe for the first LLM to answer?
Well, what we could expect? It is a fucking Large Language Model. You're feeding it a very long multi-variable time series, it can't make any sense of it, but it is going to generate text.
If you are lucky, maybe it was finetuned to see a long comma-delimited sequence of values as a table and then emit a series of tool calls to generate some deterministic code to calculate a set of descriptive statistics that then will be close in the latent space to some hopefully current medical literature, and it will generate some things that makes sense and it is not absurdly wrong.
It is a fucking LLM, it is not 2001's HAL.
And real users shouldn't be the ones discovering these edge cases through fear
> It is irresponsible for these companies
I would claim that ignoring the "ChatGPT is AI and can make mistakes. Check important info." text, right under the query they type in client, is clearly more irresponsible.
I think that a disclaimer like that is the most useful and reasonable approach for AI.
"Here's a tool, and it's sometimes wrong." means the public can have access to LLMs and AI. The alternative, that you seem to be suggesting (correct me if I'm wrong), means the public can't have access to an LLM until they are near perfect, which means the public can't ever have access to an LLM, or any AI.
What do you see as a reasonable approach to letting the public access these imperfect models? Training? Popups/agreement after every question "I understand this might be BS"? What's the threshold for quality of information where it's no longer considered "broken"? Is that threshold as good as or better than humans/news orgs/doctors/etc?