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I don't see a ton of demand for LLMs (especially offline/local ones) unless they fact check themselves. I don't see how there's a need for nonsense generators i

I don't see a ton of demand for LLMs (especially offline/local ones) unless they fact check themselves. I don't see how there's a need for nonsense generators if you can't trust the output. I don't think Siri would've gotten popular if 50% of the time you asked her a question, she made up a fake/wrong response.

viraptor 3y ago
> I don't see how there's a need for nonsense generators if you can't trust the output. There's lots of use cases where you know the answer and can verify it yourself. Knowledge lookup is not the only use. For example "rephrase this text", or "give me ideas for X" just save you time and if the answer is wrong you can try again.
kccqzy 3y ago
Fact checking is important but a lot of use cases don't need fact checking; imagine LLM as an assistant to write fiction or poetry, or imagine even some kind of a rubber-duck debugging partner or brainstorming partner where the user supplies all pertinent facts. I don't see LLMs replacing traditional Search, but they still have plenty of other use cases.
- rini17 3y ago
  Even writing fiction need some grip on reality. Supplying all pertinent facts is usually too tedious for users.
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- MuffinFlavored 3y ago
  > or brainstorming partner where the user supplies all pertinent facts. and then it recommends a 3rd party library to solve your problem that doesn't exist