WTAF is this nonsense? - "more accurate" but "less reliable" - "the fraction of wrong answers has increased" - "that means [they are] more correct, but also more incorrect" What a steaming pile of horse shit. Someone should play their words back to them. www.nature.com/articles/d41... - ThreadSky

thelasttheorist.bsky.social • 158 days ago

WTAF is this nonsense?
- "more accurate" but "less reliable"
- "the fraction of wrong answers has increased"
- "that means [they are] more correct, but also more incorrect"

What a steaming pile of horse shit. Someone should play their words back to them.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03137-3

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killerswan.bsky.social•158 days ago

(1) the difference between precision and accuracy matters immensely (humans don’t mind a vague guess labeled so, but we call a precise one that’s wrong “a lie”)

(2) who the fuck is publishing this trash you excerpted?

killerswan.bsky.social•158 days ago

(3) someone could try to parse out how they’re getting both more “correct” and more “incorrect” answers by reducing the “vague” answers but frankly I view that as PRODUCING MORE LIES

thelasttheorist.bsky.social•158 days ago

Adventures in turd-polishing.

thelasttheorist.bsky.social•158 days ago

Nature.

thelasttheorist.bsky.social•158 days ago

There are so many talented, well-trained, committed people who can't earn cat food money in academia, and I hope the restless souls of their dead careers haunt these flim flam dipshits forever.

thelasttheorist.bsky.social•158 days ago

Also "fine-tuning methods such as reinforcement from human feedback" means *human intelligence,* not AI.

ncweaver.skerry-tech.com•158 days ago

Correction, bullshit, not horseshit. These systems are all bullshit machines....

(And yes, it is amazing the # of faculty who are into this bullshit, the most notable being some who pivoted from cryptocurrency...)

thelasttheorist.bsky.social•158 days ago

I mean, it's horse shit to publicize the bullshit as "improved."

ncweaver.skerry-tech.com•158 days ago

Oh, good point. And they are very different in terms of application. Horse shit is remarkably undigested compared with bullshit.

ncweaver.skerry-tech.com•158 days ago

And I realize it is improving, since these bullshit machines DO offer Mansplaining as a Service, you don't want your Mansplaining machine to ever say "I Don't Know"

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