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A Scientific Deep Dive into Overconfident LLMs: Interview with Kaitlyn Zhou (Cornell) artwork
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A Scientific Deep Dive into Overconfident LLMs: Interview with Kaitlyn Zhou (Cornell)

Linear Digressions by Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone

Aug 10, 202600:33:54Technology

When a language model tells you it's absolutely certain, is it actually more likely to be right? Kaitlyn Zhou's research says: not necessarily — sometimes confident phrasing correlates with *worse* accuracy, echoing a ve...