This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.

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Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in AI design towards reliability, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4eCAnis 🧪

Yup, Al Jazeera confirmed that "no live fact checking" was a Trump demand www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10...

Vance versus Walz: Five takeaways from the US vice presidential debate

The Republican and Democratic candidates for vice president confronted one another in New York at a televised debate.

The second most important American election begins tomorrow, and it's open to the world. That's right, it's finally Fat Bear Week. explore.org

But the ratings for that would be terrible, so it will never happen.

I think we'd be served so much better by giving each topic the time for a thorough response and discussion. Even if they spent 45 minutes on one topic, we'd learn more from the opportunity to press for facts, to highlight damning omissions, and really make it clear where they stood.

I'd really love a debate, even one per election cycle, where the moderator decided to really dig into responses, without concern about how many topics they needed to get to.

That's not to say that the diagnoses are always correct here, just, it's one of those things where there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Yeah, the "mental health epidemic" is the same thing. Real burdens on mental health the past 4 years aside, we have high mental illness rates in the US because we have high *diagnosis* rates. Some nordic countries are extremely reluctant to diagnose these illnesses. There you go.

Thinking back to Vance's stunning rebuttal to why other countries, such as Finland, have so much less gun violence ("Americans are crazy," that was his answer)-- you remember in the '90s when there were panics about "rising divorce rates" because suddenly, people could actually get them?

I like to think that someone on the staff at the NYT, whether an IT person or a disgruntled columnist, deliberately set Douthat's op-ed to go live in the middle of the debate so that it would be clear Douthat didn't actually watch the debate.