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> What a disaster. Using tool inappropriately leads to suboptimal outcomes -- news at 11. A good mental model is that an LLM is a blurry JPEG of the Internet.
by jiggawatts 3y ago
> What a disaster.
Using tool inappropriately leads to suboptimal outcomes -- news at 11.
A good mental model is that an LLM is a blurry JPEG of the Internet.
You sound like a scientist, right? You reference "published research", after all.
What would your opinion be of a researcher measuring the exact values of the pixels of a JPEG image instead of the RAW sensor data?
- greenavocado 3y agoUsing your flawed analogy: the picture is not blurry. It is a gigantic canvas filled in with false details.
- jiggawatts 3y agoIt's false in the same sense that the pixels of lossy-compressed image are false. No, you're not going to get the precise values back out either with an LLM or a JPG image. Yes, the picture will still "look like" the original. You asked the LLM to output a URL or reference that looks like something that would appear in a research paper. It did so. You're complaining the precise byte sequence returned is not what you wanted. The error is with your expectations, not the tool.