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Very interesting that only 71% of humans got it right.
I mean, I've been saying this since LLMs were released.
We finally built a computer that is as unreliable and irrational as humans... which shouldn't be considered a good thing.
I'm under no illusion that LLMs are "thinking" in the same way that humans do, but god damn if they aren't almost exactly as erratic and irrational as the hairless apes whose thoughts they're trained on.
Yeah, the article cites that as a control, but it's not at all surprising since "humanity by survey consensus" is accurate to how LLM weighting trained on random human outputs works.
It's impressive up to a point, but you wouldn't exactly want your answers to complex math operations or other specialized areas to track layperson human survey responses.
That "30% of population = dipshits" statistic keeps rearing its ugly head.
As someone who takes public transportation to work, SOME people SHOULD be forced to walk through the car wash.
I'm not afraid to say that it took me a sec. My brain went "short distance. Walk or drive?" and skipped over the car wash bit at first. Then I laughed because I quickly realized the idiocy. :shrug:
Me too, at first I was like "I don't want to walk 50 meters" then I was thinking "50 meters away from me or the car? And where is the car?" I didn't get it until I read the rest of the article...
The same 29% that keeps fascists in power around the world.