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daymansteptoday at 8:44 AM7 repliesview on HN

Wonderful teachers that give unreliable information with total confidence?


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entropyneurtoday at 9:05 AM

I had human teachers who did that in middle/high school. Took me many years to pick out all the hallucinated bits of "knowledge". I don't think the current models are any less reliable that what we currently have on average.

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Bawoosettetoday at 8:54 AM

To be fair, that was much of my actual experience with human professors in university.

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Levitztoday at 9:22 AM

Off the top of my head: DOMS being little crystals in muscles, tongue having separate areas for each type of taste, food pyramid, blue blood in the veins, the appendix being useless, body temperature doesn't change disregarding whether it's exposed to cold or to heat, and a whole lot of stuff related to politics and history I'd rather just omit (I don't live in the US).

All things I learned in school which were wrong information.

Not to mention, the current state of education is far worse. I don't think most realize how low the bar is.

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autoexectoday at 9:28 AM

They'll also encourage and praise you even when you're heading down the wrong path until you think you've uncovered the secret of the universe or proven that established science was wrong this whole time when really you've just been bullshitting with an engagement bot.

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k__today at 8:49 AM

Anti-intellectualism is at it again, hu?

victorbjorklundtoday at 9:01 AM

Like humans.

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p-e-wtoday at 9:07 AM

The amount of bullshit and blatant lies I’ve heard from my human teachers dwarfs the hallucinations produced by today’s LLMs.