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GPT-3 would hedge when asked whether bugs are real, giving answers such as that reality cannot be known for certain.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“So GPT-3,”
“if you asked it, are bugs real?”
“It would give this kind of hemming-hauling answer like,”
“oh, we can never truly tell what is real.”
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