We need to stop just calling #LLMs #AI. They're a very specific machine learning model. That's it. There's a lot more to AI than that. This article is about current LLMs, and missing the point. LLMs don't have a poor grasp of world history, they have NO grasp of world history. They're a language model. They create sentences in a language so it makes grammatic sense when we read it. Relying on this type of construct for accurate historical information is a horrible idea.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3806840/todays-ai-models-have-a-poor-grasp-of-world-history.html
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