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Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

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MIT researchers found that today's AI reasoning models are overconfident because their training only rewards right or wrong answers, teaching models to guess boldly rather than express doubt. A new training method called RLCR fixes this by rewarding accurate confidence estimates, reducing calibration error by 90% without sacrificing accuracy.

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