Asking lots of "dumb" questions isn't a sign of stupidity. If anything it is more likely to be the sign of a person who is very strict about always keeping a crystal clear mental model of the topic at hand.
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The questions are just a symptom of their perpetual model refinement process. Mildly correlates with intelligence, and highly correlates with competence.
"It turns out that if you ask a lot of dumb questions, you get smarter really, really quick. And when you're surrounded by people that want to teach and learn themselves, that can be a beautiful thing." – Chris Lattner
There is room for, if not an imperative Francois, to create human-like 'understanding'. It is clearly not part of today's LLM and LVM architecture with systemic 'hallucinations'. These are really are really errors for the trustworthy language interface of the future.
1) it was in the FAQ, last chapter, it's obvious, etc. the answer? learn how to learn. how to look it up.
2) an unclarity or issue no one has noticed. "what would happen if you could chase a light beam?" v difficult, b/c experts often say it a dumb question.
At lunch the other day I asked "How did oil get buried underground?" One person laughed and played it off as a stupid question. Turns out it was a stupid question to them because they didn't understand oil was from organic material, so there was no mystery to them.
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1) it was in the FAQ, last chapter, it's obvious, etc. the answer? learn how to learn. how to look it up.
2) an unclarity or issue no one has noticed. "what would happen if you could chase a light beam?" v difficult, b/c experts often say it a dumb question.
More similar categorizations - "dumb" questions/obvious questions that everybody thinks they know the answer to/in between the line questions.