Sometimes AI reminds me of my younger self — confidently wrong.
I once asked an AI to explain something it clearly didn’t understand.
It replied with total certainty, fancy words, and zero hesitation.
To be fair, that’s exactly how I sounded in my first decade of coding.
Maybe the upgrade we need isn’t more data — it’s teaching AI to say,
“I’m not sure, but here’s a guess.”
Do you think humility belongs in machine learning?
Top comments (5)
Absolutely — I'd say especially so.
Great call out! I think this is needed. There are too many folks who just blindly use the slop they're given.
The AI is very sure but the provider always reminds that they can be wrong.
Install patch: vHumility. Fixes “confidently wrong” bug with a “maybe” feature.
AI is really competent in subjects I know nothing of.