“AI can make mistakes” might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot.
An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired.
So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?
@PavelASamsonov @baldur Step one is to stop anthropomorphising LLMs.
LLMs can be wrong. The algorithms cannot ‘make a mistake’. They’re just wrong.
@octothorpe @PavelASamsonov @baldur
*Everything* Generative AI models produce is hallucinations. Some happen to look like reality. Fewer still actually match reality.
@JeffGrigg @octothorpe @baldur I first read this from @tante and I think even featured it in the newsletter at some point - the article even considers that "hallucination" is still anthropomorphizing what LLMs do.
The discourse on “AI” systems, chat bots, “assistants” and “research helpers” is defined by a lot of future promises. Those systems are disfunctional or at least not working great right now but there’s the promise of things getting better in the future. Which is how we often perceive tech to work: Early versions might be […]
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