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This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)

www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.
December 5, 2024 at 3:50 AM