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The phrase hallucination in the context of LLM went from useful and self explanatory to misused in about 5 minutes.
by psychphysic 4y ago
The phrase hallucination in the context of LLM went from useful and self explanatory to misused in about 5 minutes.
- dr_dshiv 4y agoI prefer confabulate, myself—it has a useful parallel in the neurosciences (confabulation theory).
- ummonk 4y agoYeah but this isn't confabulating. It's just role-playing as instructed.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoAre the two mutually exclusive?
- psychphysic 4y agoYes, I think both are needed. Confabulation adding data which was not provided. Example making up the plot of an episode. Hallucination to claim stimuli which was not provided. Claiming my prompt included something it did not. Delusions refusing to admit an error or mistake and the best thing to do is reset the history and explicitly exclude the topic. Examples accusing me of spreading harmful disinformation when I brought up Kirstie Alley's death. Often it's mistaken and it's none of those, you can simply correct it or direct it better. I've experienced both, and deal with both in different ways.
- 93po 4y agoSo is the separation between confabulation and hallucination whether the "wrongness" comes from the training or the prompt?
- namaria 4y agoIt was never accurate. The concatenated strings just failed to conform to reality as it often does. People are projecting too hard on a chatbot. It's just a chatbot people.
- danielbln 4y agoDo people feel that this reductiveness is clever or useful? Are you in camp "stochastic parrot"?
- namaria 4y agoI have never seen hype precede significant change. It's usually the other way around. It took people years to realize how much PC and smartphones and social media were impacting society. And I never seen lower entry barriers improve quality of systems. Also, I don't think generating code in a probabilistic manner is a win. I'm not in a camp. What is it with current discourse that only sees adversary teams as valid positions?
- soderfoo 4y ago> I have never seen hype precede significant change. It's usually the other way around. It took people years to realize how much PC and smartphones and social media were impacting society. Great counter-point. It is a false dichotomy to view this as a binary matter (terrible pun not intended). During the information superhighway era of the nascent internet, opinions on what would become varied as well (I recall with a bit less sarcasm and absolutist thinking).[1] The hype was not widespread, and even though some prognostications were fairly accurate in broadly outlining societal and economic benefits, predicting the downsides was an oversight. Maybe failing to foresee these difficulties in the past has left some people jaded? Could this be driving much of the cynicism and skepticism in the great AI debate? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway
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- rimliu 4y agoLet's not talk about the concept of AI in the context of LLM then.