• 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    The people here don’t get LLMs and it shows. This is neither surprising nor a bad thing imo.

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      2 months ago

      In what way is presenting factually incorrect information as if it’s true not a bad thing?

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        2 months ago

        LLMs operate using tokens, not letters. This is expected behavior. A hammer sucks at controlling a computer and that’s okay. The issue is the people telling you to use a hammer to operate a computer, not the hammer’s inability to do so

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            It would be luck based for pure LLMs, but now I wonder if the models that can use Python notebooks might be able to code a script to count it. Like its actually possible for an AI to get this answer consistently correct these days.

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      2 months ago

      People who make fun of LLMs most often do get LLMs and try to point out how they tend to spew out factually incorrect information, which is a good thing since many many people out there do not, in fact, “get” LLMs (most are not even acquainted with the acronym, referring to the catch-all term “AI” instead) and there is no better way to make a precaution about the inaccuracy of output produced by LLMs –however realistic it might sound– than to point it out with examples with ridiculously wrong answers to simple questions.

      Edit: minor rewording to clarify