Re: Seconds since 1st January 1961 to date/time
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:22 am
I had to chuckle as this reminded me of some interviews I had to conduct about a year ago - when just that situation was presented to me. It's hard to overcome the natural bias towards what looks polished and professional - but I was chosen to be on the interview panel because I am a natrual sceptic with an aversion to those that I think over polish their presentation - I was looking for content - and I found it in the individual who was perhaps more nervous, but clearly understood the request better and had thought about his answer and my interrogation of it - he got the job, although my managers wanted to employ the other guy because he was "more professional"tofro wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:00 am ...
There is absolutely no "I" in modern "AIs". They are sophisticated language models that sort of understand what you're saying, then comes up with an answer that more or less consists of the same pattern. That's it. We're tricked into believing the AI's through their perfect command of language, which triggers some sort of cognitive bias in humans:
Imagine you're presented with two solutions to a problem you don't have any previous knowledge on: One (which might be a brilliant one) is presented by someone who stumbles through their sentences - maybe because its not their native language - and in a maybe unstructured way , the other (which may be total bullshit) is presented perfectly in well-formed language. Whom will you believe? Its likely the perfect presenter, because you will silently put the presenter's command of the problem space on the same level as their command of the language.
