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I see Google’s deal with Reddit is going just great…

  • DarkThoughts
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    296 months ago

    Honestly, no. What “AI” needs is people better understanding how it actually works. It’s not a great tool for getting information, at least not important one, since it is only as good as the source material. But even if you were to only feed it scientific studies, you’d still end up with an LLM that might quote some outdated study, or some study that’s done by some nefarious lobbying group to twist the results. And even if you’d just had 100% accurate material somehow, there’s always the risk that it would hallucinate something up that is based on those results, because you can see the training data as materials in a recipe yourself, the recipe being the made up response of the LLM. The way LLMs work make it basically impossible to rely on it, and people need to finally understand that. If you want to use it for serious work, you always have to fact check it.

    • @Eranziel
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      46 months ago

      This guy gets it. Thanks for the excellent post.

    • @Aux
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      -26 months ago

      People need to realise what LLMs actually are. This is not AI, this is a user interface to a database. Instead of writing SQL queries and then parsing object output, you ask questions in your native language, they get converted into queries and then results from the database are converted back into human speech. That’s it, there’s no AI, there’s no magic.

        • @Aux
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          -136 months ago

          Try to use ChatGPT in your own application before you talk nonsense, ok?

          • flere-imsaho
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            106 months ago

            do read up a little on how the large language models work before coming here to mansplain, would you kindly?

            • @Aux
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              -56 months ago

              Removed by mod

            • @Aux
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              -46 months ago

              Removed by mod

              • @[email protected]
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                66 months ago

                every now and then I’m left to wonder what all these drivebys think we do/know/practice (and, I suppose, whether they consider it at all?)

                not enough to try find out (in lieu of other datapoints). but the thought occasionally haunts me.

                • deborah
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                  66 months ago

                  I’m not sure they have theory of mind, TBH.