The AI Confidence Score Means Almost Nothing

The Simple Version When an AI tool shows you a confidence score, like &ldquo;87% confident,&rdquo; that number is not a calibrated probability. It is an output of the same prediction process that generated the answer, and it can be just as wrong as the answer itself. What the Score Actually Is Large language models do not work like a doctor estimating odds of a diagnosis from years of case data.…