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lesuoractoday at 1:41 PM1 replyview on HN

If you're looking for a citation about this, the 1999 Dunning-Kurger paper "Unskilled and unaware" [1] is about this.

People who are unskilled at a task are unaware of what that task performed correctly is. So, somebody who can't count calories is unable to tell that the AI can't perform the task correctly either.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10626367/


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hombre_fataltoday at 2:05 PM

Fwiw invoking Dunning-Kruger is beyond trite at this point.

Which is a good thing because it means we can talk like normal humans ("people don't know that it's unreliable") instead of acting like we're making such a profound claim that it needs a citation and psychological dissection.