• oyo@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    LLMs: using statistics to generate reasonable-sounding wrong answers from bad data.

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        4 months ago

        And the system doesn’t know either.

        For me this is the major issue. A human is capable of saying “I don’t know”. LLMs don’t seem able to.

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          4 months ago

          Accurate.

          No matter what question you ask them, they have an answer. Even when you point out their answer was wrong, they just have a different answer. There’s no concept of not knowing the answer, because they don’t know anything in the first place.

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            4 months ago

            The worst for me was a fairly simple programming question. The class it used didn’t exist.

            “You are correct, that class was removed in OLD version. Try this updated code instead.”

            Gave another made up class name.

            Repeated with a newer version number.

            It knows what answers smell like, and the same with excuses. Unfortunately there’s no way of knowing whether it’s actually bullshit until you take a whiff of it yourself.