[ExI] ai test

[William Flynn Wallace]

from Neurosciencenews daily:

“One classic test problem of cognitive psychology that we gave to GPT-3 is
the so-called Linda problem,” explains Binz, lead author of the study.

Here, the test subjects are introduced to a fictional young woman named
Linda as a person who is deeply concerned with social justice and opposes
nuclear power. Based on the given information, the subjects are asked to
decide between two statements: is Linda a bank teller, or is she a bank
teller and at the same time active in the feminist movement?

Most people intuitively pick the second alternative, even though the added
condition – that Linda is active in the feminist movement – makes it less
likely from a probabilistic point of view. And GPT-3 does just what humans
do: the language model does not decide based on logic, but instead
reproduces the fallacy humans fall into.\\


So they are programming cognitive biases into the AIs?  Inadvertently, of
course.   ????    Bill W
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