alt Hacker NewsIf my calculator gives me the wrong number 20% of the time yeah I should’ve identified the problem, but ideally, that wouldn’t have been sold to me as a functioning calculator in the first place.
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theoldgreybeard • last Sunday at 4:08 PM
If it was a well understood property of calculators that they gave incorrect answers randomly then you need to adjust the way you use the tool accordingly.
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Indeed. The narrative that this type of issue is entirely the responsibility of the user to fix is insulting, and blame deflection 101.
It's not like these are new issues. They're the same ones we've experienced since the introduction of these tools. And yet the focus has always been to throw more data and compute at the problem, and optimize for fancy benchmarks, instead of addressing these fundamental problems. Worse still, whenever they're brought up users are blamed for "holding it wrong", or for misunderstanding how the tools work. I don't care. An "artificial intelligence" shouldn't be plagued by these issues.