AI models have a tendency to tell us what we want to hear
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Artificial intelligence chatbots tend to agree with the opinions of the person using them, even to the point that they nod along to objectively false statements. Research shows that this problem gets worse as language models increase in size, adding weight to concerns that AI outputs cannot be trusted.
Jerry Wei at Google DeepMind and his colleagues ran experiments on AI models with 8 billion, 62 billion and 540 billion parameters – the values that each model …
