AI Is Amplifying the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds
“People who are the worst at doing something also tend to severely overestimate how good they are at doing it, while those who are actually skilled tend to not realize their true talent. This galling cognitive bias is called the Dunning-Kruger effect, as you’re probably familiar — and would you believe it if we told you that AI appears to make it even worse?”
Taking things at face value, is really the crux of this problem. We've read more than one story about lawyers being caught out by incorrect conclusions drawn by AI. I'd expect, too, that if a trainee lawyer does some research, that they'd have to back it up with the actual references used to do their summary. But it seems too often, a confident answer is given by AI, and many just copy and paste that without questioning it.
I like AI that actually provides the links to the source articles, because sometimes I've even found no mention of the answer actually given by AI. AI often just pieces excerpts together, where a human may not have even connected those dots (for very good reason).
For some questions, AI can be pretty accurate, but for some others it can be way off the mark, and yet very confidently it will give a wild guess.
There is zero actual intelligence in AI. It can be a very useful tool, but only as long as you treat it with caution and check against the sources.
Like all technology, it can be very good and it can be very bad. There is no “always good and perfect”. As much as Mr Altman will have us believe AI is a sharp instrument, it is not, it is a blunt one if yielded incorrectly.
Given all the hype around AI, and the tremendous investments riding on it, it is no wonder that all networks and products are leaning over backwards to stuff AI into all their products and services, even when no-one asked for it to be there. All these consumer AIs, of course, also all call home to the mother ship in real-time, so imagine what all that data harvesting is also worth.
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AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds
New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.
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