AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes

HELLFIRE

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/ai_is_overconfident_does_not_learn_study/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-025-01755-4

… The promise of an always-available expert who can chew the fat on a range of topics using conversational natural-language question-and-response has proven popular – but the reality has fallen short, thanks to issues with “hallucinations” in which the answer-shaped object it generates from a stream of statistically likely continuation tokens bears little resemblance to reality. … “We still don’t know exactly how AI estimates its confidence,” [co-author Danny] Oppenheimer adds, “but it appears not to engage in introspection, at least not skilfully.” …

Four popular commercial LLM products – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet and Claude Haiku - were given various tasks, and the performances and confidence in each task were then compared to human participants.

As I’ve asked before : which would you rather have, Artificial Intelligence or Natural Stupidity? /cynical

I’m also reminded of this saying : “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” -Miles Kington

Regards

telcodad

HELLFIRE I’m also reminded of this saying : “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” -Miles Kington

But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled back in 1893 that the tomato is a vegetable: 😉

Are Tomatoes a Fruit or Vegetable?
https://naturesweet.com/are-tomatoes-a-fruit-or-vegetable

Somewhat-Reticent

Divine Providence provided the tomato, not a local government agency.

telcodad

Somewhat-Reticent Divine Providence provided the tomato, not a local government agency.

To be fair, the Supreme Court only ruled that way for the purposes of customs and tariffs:

In this 1893 case, Nix argued that because tomatoes were botanically classified as fruits, he shouldn’t have to pay the vegetable tax.

While the Supreme Court did acknowledge the botanical origins of the tomato as a “fruit of the vine,” its classification was ultimately ruled as a vegetable.

Tomatoes differed from other fruits because they are served with the main meal instead of dessert, and the public already generally thought of tomatoes as a vegetable. There was no evidence that the words “fruit” or “vegetable” had any special meaning in trade or commerce, so the common language interpretation of a tomato prevailed.

Ever since this case, tomatoes have been classified as a vegetable by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.