As a sort of related anecdote... if you remember the days before google, people sitting around your dinner table arguing about stuff used to spew all sorts of bullshit then drop that they have a degree from XYZ university and they won the argument... when google/wikipedia came around turned out that those people were in fact just spewing bullshit. I'm sure there was some damage but it feels like a similar thing. Our "bullshit-radar" seems to be able to adapt to these sorts of things.
Well, with every conspiracy theories thriving on this day and age with access to technology and information at one fingertips. If you add that now the US administration effectively spewing bullshit every few minutes.
The best example of this was an arguement I had a little while ago where I was talking about self driving and I was mentioning that I have a hard time trusting any system relying only on cameras, to which I was being told that I didn't understand how machine learning works and obviously they were correct and I was wrong and every car would be self driving within 5 years. All of these things could easily be verified independently.
Suffice to say that I am not sure that the "bullshit-radar" is that adaptive...
Mind you, this is not limited to the particular issue at hand but I think those situations needs to be highlighted, because we get fooled easily by authoritative delivery...
Language models are closing the gaps that still remain at an amazing rate. There are still a few gaps, but if we consider what has happened just in the last year, and extrapolated 2-3 years out....
