alt Hacker NewsThe answer is the same as how the messy bag of chemistry that is the human brain "knows" when it isn't sure:
Badly, and with great difficulty, so while it can just about be done, even then only kinda.
The answer is the same as how the messy bag of chemistry that is the human brain "knows" when it isn't sure:
Badly, and with great difficulty, so while it can just about be done, even then only kinda.
We really don’t understand the human brain well enough to have confidence that the mechanisms that cause people to respond with “I don’t know” are at all similar to the mechanisms which cause LLMs to give such responses. And there are quite a few prima facie reasons to think that they wouldn’t be the same.