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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days ago

AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

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AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days ago
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Today’s paper is “AI Makes You Smarter, But None the Wiser: The Disconnect between Performance and Metacognition”. AI users wildly overestimate how brilliant they actually are: [Elsevier, paywalled…

Dunning-Kruger for everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvmlb1S6ogE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251031-ai-makes-you-think-youre-a-genius-when-youre-an-idiot - podcast

time: 3 min 57 sec

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    Baldur Bjarnason has a piece from July 2023 called The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con[1] that you might appreciate, if you haven’t read it yet. :)


    1. https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/ ↩︎

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      I did lift that basic concept from an article I read, and I would assume it was that one. Thanks for the link.

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