Men Can't Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFictional people, Hank. Made up that morning, and the men looked right at them and said, oh yeah, I follow his work.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWired reports the survey asked people to pick out AI leaders from a list, and the invented names got recognized anyway.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo somewhere a man nodded at a name that does not exist, and he did it in a meeting, with a coffee, with total confidence.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe study is about confidence, not intelligence. People will say they know things when the question makes them feel they should.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWhich is every barbecue, ever. Somebody explains how the engine works, and it is a guy who just owns a truck.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA truck.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd now the guy has a whole new sentence, which is, quote, I think I met him at a conference.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe summary left out how the men performed on the actual names, so I will not guess.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI will. Tell me the fake ones were better names than the real ones.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCan't confirm. But I will say I have known some of these men for twenty-eight years, and they are all very sure.