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Scholars: AI isn't "hallucinating" – it's bullshitting

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• Olesya000 2y ago
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• atoav 2y ago
  Years ago I thought an introductory course to python with a focus on processing text and language in the examples. During the last lessons when people where generally pretty ok with processing normal text we started to work with markov chains. These can be very interesting for a kind of generation where you still "feel" the source material present in the branching paths of the output. I am aware that LLMs are different from markov chains, but I can't help to think about markov chains and their way of just giving you likely texts, not necessarily correct ones.
• WheelsAtLarge 2y ago
  Not BS, they are random chains of text. BS implies that there's some intention. There's zero intention. We have to stop giving LLM's human-like traits. It just confuses the common man into thinking we are close to creating an AGI, smart code. We are not.
  • hotstickyballs 2y ago
    Of course there’s an “intention”. The intention is to minimize loss (i.e. score well on a dataset). There are plenty of university students who bullshit through an exam to score well.