[ExI] ai test

[Adrian Tymes]

It's a trick question rather than a true comparison.  Most people read the
fact that a comparison is requested to mean that the first statement
implies that Linda is not active in the feminist movement, when in fact the
first statement is neutral about that.

On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 9:25 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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