alt Hacker NewsI am asking a lot here, but school needs to be training people what AI is and what it's weaknesses are and how to use it... My school taught me to use a calculator. It also taught me how to check my work when I relied on the calculator.
AI is a very complicated calculator - you give it an input, magic happens, it gives you an output. Really no different, to a layman.
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Considering the lack of basic math skills I encounter each and every day, I don't think schools did enough; they certainly aren't going to do enough w/LLMs.
It's more complicated than a calculator. Even researchers who have dedicated their lives to the field don't know all of the limitations of any given model. That fact alone isn't helpful when a model is 80% correct in one area but 2% in another.
To be fair, this should probably be covered by basic physics/maybe cooking classes. “You can’t determine the calories in food by looking at it” isn’t really ML specific.