On LLMs saying (or failing to say) "I don't know"
When we say that "LLMs won't admit it when they don't know something", what do we actually mean? It seems to indeed be the case that LLMs won't output the sentence "I don't know" back as an answer
Virginia Conde
Dr. in Biomedicine, 1st-gen academic. Interested in research ethics, scientific reasoning, and critical thinking; how we learn to ask research questions, and how we develop academic literacies.
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