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“…the outcomes of Large Language Models are not designed to be true — they are merely designed to be statistically likely.” yep!

• pcmaffey 2y ago
  A search engine does not return a true answer. It returns a set of possibilities ranked by likelihood. An LLM is just an aggregation of search results.
  • hprotagonist 2y ago
    a set of possibilities ranked by likelihood… written by humans who have the capacity to be interested in truth.
  • roncesvalles 2y ago
    No, that misses the nuance entirely. An LLM returns one answer that it thinks is likely to be true. A search engine returns many answers one of which is either certainly true or (depending on what you're searching) is the literal source of truth. There is a world of difference between these two results. Ultimately the problem is that a single repository of all verifiably true human knowledge just doesn't exist and both search engines and LLMs are copes to deal with this fact.