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amtamttoday at 8:11 AM1 replyview on HN

> On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

I guess many of us quality for british parliament.


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jumploopstoday at 8:45 AM

Funnily enough, with the most recent models (having reduced sycophancy), putting in the wrong assumptions often still leads to the right output.