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Premature Collapse is the Root of All Evil
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. – Donald Knuth One of the common, recurring themes that I have observed for more than a year is the tendency to push for simple solutions. I suspect that much of this is because we prefer to have simple unambiguous answers. They require less cognitive effort and […]
What a long strange trip its been
I have realized that I have not been using this forum effectively to talk about my work. My recent posts are all about AI: Epistemic Honesty Revisited: Worse Than I FearedEpistemic Honesty: An Unusual Commodity for Large Language ModelsThe Risks of Using Gemini Code So, I decided to catch up here. PhD Research I spent […]
Epistemic Honesty Revisited: Worse Than I Feared
In my earlier post about Epistemic Honesty I provided an initial snapshot into the behavior of current AI models when asked to summarize a non-existent paper. Subsequent analysis showed that the 62% fabrication figure was overly conservative. This arose because we initially counted a disclaimer as a refusal. This is overly restrictive. When I use […]
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