Gary Marcus
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There was a scandal when the Pentium 4, I think, made very, very rare mathematical errors.
Huge scandal.
They had to recall the chips and stuff like that.
Somehow the standards have fallen.
Everybody knows LLMs make mistakes all the time and they're perfectly happy with it.
I'm like, I wouldn't want an intern who does that.
How do you think that plays out?
I mean, we might or we might not stop using them.
There should be consequences, right?
Sycophancy, by the way, is when they kiss your ass, right?
Yes.
Right.
So that's a separate problem from lying, although it's a form of lying practice.
Like when they tell you that your idea is the greatest idea ever and it's not actually that.
That's what I mean.
You're the great, you're the best.
So we're in this, I don't know, awkward space where they do some things that feel magical, right?
So...
brainstorming for some people.
I don't get that much out of them, but I'm working in disciplines I know well.