Thursday, August 14, 2025

Success comes from active and conscientious curation of data/information/values inputs.

A thought for later development.

The AI models function based on the Large Language Models (LLM).  From hallucinations, to clearly wrong answer, to inexplicable answers, there are a range of results from AI which are at least puzzling and sometimes alarming.  No one yet understands why these things occur.

My suspicion is that some of the issue reflects inherent errors and biases in the text ingested by the LLMs in the first place.  If a disproportionate percentage of input is from Legacy Mainstream Media, then of course there will be a pattern to errors.  If the LLM has an excess reliance on Reddit, likewise.  

My further suspicion is that the improvement of AI will necessarily come from an improvement in the data constituting the LLMs.  The sources must be curated so that the strongest and most useful only are contributors.  The lower quality are gradually filtered out.  

The further thought is that this, if true, is analogous to humans.  Independent of the inherited attributes (Gender, height, health, IQ, etc.) an individuals degree of success is largely shaped by the values and behaviors cultivated by themselves, their class, their religion, and their culture.  The combination of the three are not equally effective everywhere in the world.  The successful person curates their culture as a predicate to their future success.

For AI, effectiveness will come from better curated input into LLMs.

For individuals, it is already the case that effectiveness arises from the quality of behaviors and values is a function of selected personal, social class, religion and cultural attributes.  

Success comes from active and conscientious curation of data/information/values inputs.  

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