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  • FaceDeer
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    31 day ago

    Whereas I use LLMs every day, have actually written code that uses them, and I understand that they’re perfectly fine dealing with factual information when used in the proper framework. You’d be using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in an application like this.

    The “but hallucinations!” Objection goes in the same bin as “they can’t do fingers.” It’s an old concern that’s had a lot of work done to resolve it but that the general public haven’t bothered to keep up with.

    • Lemminary
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      11 day ago

      “they can’t do fingers.” It’s an old concern

      Have you seen those gorilla hands, though? Yes, there are five fingers there but everyone got fucking man hands. lmao

      It seems RAG helps mitigate but doesn’t eliminate hallucinations yet. Not to mention it’s quite expensive and has trouble extracting information based on abstract concepts. It sounds promising but it’s not the silver bullet I’m being sold on.