Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of PnictogenRE: https://toot.community/@fak/116353999914043336
I suppose that I can justly be called an #LLM "hater", because I have nothing good to say about that particularly manifestation of technology. Here's a reason for my "hatred", which I confess does not seem so much like hatred to me, but rather intellectual disdain: people are encouraged to use them for things that one should not ever expect them to be good at, not if their true nature as technological devices were accepted matter-of-factly.
Once again I am forced to explain that #LLMs construct their outputs stochastically: given some input and asked to construct a response, the device is choosing words and phrases randomly (well, pseudo-randomly), that is to say stochastically, according to the statistical likelihood that someone, some human being mostly likely, has in the past emitted text in response to the words and phrases in the given query.
The greater the range of permissible randomness (or pseudo-randomness) in the LLM's response, the more "creative" the LLM is said to be.
Why would you expect such a device to be good at telling the time?
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