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   Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 23:40:10 JST Gerry McGovern

   "Navan’s Ilan Twig fundamentally reassessed his trust of large language models after asking his virtual AI finance chief to come up with five proposals for cutting the company’s business travel expenses. When it failed, he raised the stakes and the agentic AI responded to the pressure with a surprising—and all-too-human—response. It cheated."

   https://fortune.com/article/navan-ilan-twig-agentic-ai-lies/

   AI has been developed by the tech bros from Valley of Pimps and Pushers. It reflects the criminal character and amoral behavior.

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     Paul Shryock (paulshryock@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 23:40:08 JST Paul Shryock

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     @gerrymcgovern and I think this is where most people are -- they continue to think that LLM's can think, reason, and make choices -- rather than only statistically guess at the next letter, and the next letter, and so on.

     I feel like we need mass education because people have been lied to by companies to believe that "artificial intelligence" includes "intelligence." That's science fiction.

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     Paul Shryock (paulshryock@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 23:40:09 JST Paul Shryock

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     @gerrymcgovern

     “I learned that LLMs understand what a lie is. They understand when to use a lie,” he explained. “And I learned that they are very competitive and that they would do whatever it takes—including lying bluntly to your face—in order not to lose.”

     I think he missed the point. LLM's don't "understand" anything. They don't "compete" or "lie", because they have no actual intelligence. They only bullshit. That's their only job: to statistically guess an answer. No thinking involved.

     Anthk repeated this.