Kevin Beaumont2d ago

KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAI has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited.

One minor problem: it turns they used AI to write the report, and it made up all of the evidence.

KPMG have now withdrawn the report in full.

https://www.ft.com/content/b3828e92-4961-4b39-84f0-c42f33be3c3f

Show threadJarjantifa2d ago

@GossiTheDog
We really need to get rid of the term "Hallucinations". It's an algorithm spewing nonsense. It's a bullshit generator spewing bullshit. It's a chatbot trained to serve up crap that sounds plausible. In short, it's a tool that does exactly what it's designed to do.

And the people who published this monstrosity should not be able to hide behind the tool they used!

Show threadWesDym
@jarjan I doubt that actually knowledgeable people misunderstand it, and you do have to use SOME term to describe the phenomenon. Nearly all modern language is allegorical, so unless you just invent completely new words, all terms are going to be metaphors. And in cases like this, any term you come up with is going to be misunderstood and misused by people who AREN'T knowledgeable anyway, so what difference does it make?
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Show threadJarjantifa2d ago
@wesdym
The point is that the term "hallucinating" is grossly misleading (possibly intentionally so) for most people. It assigns a human / intelligence quality to a statistical language generator.
The correct term would be: errors
It's really not complicated, but "errors" doesn't sound so nice.
Show threadWesDym1d ago

@jarjan I'm willing to bet that you have not polled "most people" and have approximately zero evidence to back up this claim that I'm sure you believe very much.

You're going to have to eventually learn to live with the world not always going your way, especially when 1) you can't do much or anything about it, and 2) your frustration stems from things you imagine rather than what you can be reasonably sure is true based on good evidence. Your life will be better.

Let that process start today.

Show threadJarjantifa49m ago
@wesdym
Trolling much? 🤣🤣🤣