I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem

9 months ago by Occhioverde to c/programming

An experiment involving sweeping floors, simulated annealing, and why algorithms that optimize for the wrong thing ruin your life.

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lascapi 15 points 9 months ago

The article is nice and the finals observations are saddly so true :/ :(

Even LLMs (Large Language Models) like ChatGPT optimize for the wrong thing. They optimize for sounding confident. For sounding like they know the answer. Not for being right. Not for being honest.

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