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set_secret@lemmy.world 6 months agoOh ok thanks i thought this thread was about AI LLMs in general.
Weird i was downvoted for demonstrating the very thing that apparently (according to these very learned comments) AI can’t do, actually doing it well. Seems like irrational bubble hate to me, common on reddit but getting more so on Lemmy it seems. “that guys asking topic based questions that make our comments look poorly thought out and potentially wrong, burn him”
tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
This is a thing that is true of all LLMs, but it seems like you’re misunderstanding the core issue. It CAN give outputs like that sometimes. What we CAN’T do is force it to give outputs like that ALL the time.
It will answer “I don’t know” if its predictive text model guesses that the most common response to this would be “I don’t know”. To do that, to simplify a little, you could imagine that it reads your question, compares that to all the text in its training data, and tries to find the conversation that looks most like the question you asked, then answers whatever the person in the training data answered. But your exact question wasn’t in its training data, so if you took that mental model, and instead had it compare to 1000 similar looking things in its training model and average them, then it would hopefully do a better job of coming up with something at least close to what you actually asked. Now take it to a million, or a billion.
It doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t understand anything you say. It just looks at patterns that it learned from the training data and tries to guess what words are most likely to be said in that case.
set_secret@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ok very long and detailed response, i was responding to the initial comments that explicitly said if you give ai a made up thing it will definitely hallucinate. Which i demonstrated to be false in (multiple times). I’m not suggesting it doesn’t hallucinate a lot of the time still, but the comments were making out its 100% broken, and it clearly works for many queries very effectively, despite its limited applications. Im just suggesting we don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I think the trouble is, what baby are we throwing out with the bathwater in this case? We can’t prevent LLMs from hallucinating (but we can mitigate it somewhat with carefully constructed prompts). So, use cases where we’re okay with that are fair game, but any use case (or in this case, law?) that would require the LLM never hallucinates aren’t attainable, and to get back earlier, this particular case has nothing to do with capitalism.
set_secret@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, i agree