Over the weekend I was looking up NCAA softball rankings and there was an acronym I couldn’t figure out, CPCT. Asking Claude and Gemini it was pure random generation. You can refresh google and get a different explanation every time. They are usually logical “a percentage representing conference success”, but every time it was extremely confident about a different meaning for the abbreviation.
It’s less that they don’t know, I still have no clue what it stands it seems like no one defines it anywhere, it’s more that they show 0 evidence of not knowing. I still really struggle to understand how someone would genuinely replace research with LLMs. Argument sure, but fully replace? The likelihood of being convinced of a total falsehood still feels too high.
Yes, but sadly, people will increasingly start filling research and writing with AI generated material. And so we won't even know what's real and true anymore.
It’s less that they don’t know, I still have no clue what it stands it seems like no one defines it anywhere, it’s more that they show 0 evidence of not knowing. I still really struggle to understand how someone would genuinely replace research with LLMs. Argument sure, but fully replace? The likelihood of being convinced of a total falsehood still feels too high.