Plain Strata: Could Not Check, Why Verifying AI Work Needs a Third Answer
A chemist asked to reproduce somebody else's experiment reaches a step her bench cannot carry out, and the form she has been handed has two boxes, reproduces and does not reproduce, so whatever she ticks is a lie about a paper she never tested. A network that pays strangers' machines to do AI work has built exactly that form for its checkers (a checker is a participant whose job is to say whether the work was done properly, and its answer is written permanently on a ledger, a shared record nobody can edit, and moves money), because each checker can test only a finite list of things, called…
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