Except that “hallucinate” is a terrible term. A hallucination is when your senses report something that isn’t true.
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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 days agoObviusly.
And like hallucinations, it’s undesired behavior that proponents off LLMs will need to “fix”.
But how you use words to explain the phenomenon?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Yes.
Who are you trying to convince?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The interface makes it appear that the AI is sapient. You talk to it like a human being, and it responds like a human being. Like you said, it might be impossible to avoid ascribing things like intentionality to it, since it’s so good at imitating people.
It may very well be a stepping-stone to AGI. It may not. Nobody knows. So, of course we shouldn’t assume that it is.
I don’t think that “hallucinate” is a good term regardless. Not because it makes AI appear sapient, but because it’s inaccurate whether the AI is sapient or not.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Like you said, it might be impossible to avoid ascribing things like intentionality to it
That’s not what I meant. When you say “it makes stuff up” you are describing how the model statistically predicts the expected output.
You know that. I know that.
That’s the asterisk. The more in-depth explanation a lot people won’t bother getting far enough to learn about. Someone who doesn’t read that far into it, can read that same phrase and assume that we’re discussing what type of personality LLMs exhibit, that they are “liars”. But they’d be wrong. Neither of us is attributing intention to it or discussing what kind of “person” it is, in reality we’re referring to the fact that it’s “just” a really complex probability engine that can’t “know” anything.
No matter what word we use, if it is pre-existing, it will come with pre-existing meanings that are kinda right, but also not quite, requiring that everyone involved in a discussion know things that won’t be explained every time a term or phrase is used.
The language isn’t “inaccurate” between you and me because you and I know the technical definition, and therefore what aspect of LLMs is being discussed.
Terminology that is “accurate” without this context does not and cannot exist, short of coming up with completely new words.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t know, I’ve been struggling to find the right ‘sound bite’ for it myself. The problem is that all of the simplified expansions encourage people to anthropomorphize these things, which just further fuels the toxic type cycle.
In the end, I’m unsure which does more damage.
Is it better to convince people the AI “lies”, so they’ll stop using it? Or is it better to convince people AI doesn’t actually have the capacity to lie so that they’ll stop investing will stop shoveling money into the datacenter altar like we’ve just created some bullshit techno-god