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Calculators compute; they have to compute reliably; humans are limited and can make computing mistakes. We want reliable tools - they have to give reliable res
by mdp2021 2y ago
Calculators compute; they have to compute reliably; humans are limited and can make computing mistakes.
We want reliable tools - they have to give reliable results; humans are limited and can be unreliable.
That is why we need the tools - humans are limited, we want tools that overcome human limitation.
I really do not see where you intended to go with your post.
- surfingdino 2y agoThis. We have trained generations of people to trust computers to give correct answers. LLM peddlers use that trust to sell systems that provide unreliable answers.
- keiferski 2y agoNot the poster you’re replying to, but - I took his point to mean that hallucinate is an inaccurate verb to describe the phenomenon of AI creating fake data, because the word hallucination implies something that is separate from the “real world.” This term is thus not an accurate label, because that’s not how LLMs work. There is no distinction between “real” and “imagined” data to an LLM - it’s all just data. And so this metaphor is one that is misleading and inaccurate.