Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systems
ShakingMyHead @ ShakingMyHead @awful.systems Posts 0Comments 130Joined 1 yr. ago
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So, I'm not an expert study-reader or anything, but it looks like they took some questions from the MMLU, modified it in some unspecified way and put it into 3 categories (AI, human, AI-human), and after accounting for skill, determined that people with higher theory of mind had a slightly better outcome than people with lower theory of mind. They determined this based on what the people being tested wrote to the AI, but what they wrote isn't in the study.
What they didn't do is state that people with higher theory of mind are more likely to use AI or anything like that. The study also doesn't mention empathy at all, though I guess it could be inferred.
Not that any of that actually matters because how they determined how much "theory of mind" each person had was to ask Gemini 2.5 and GPT-4o.