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No more dead links, instead Chrome will instead hallucinate what that website should have looked like.
by GaryNumanVevo 2y ago
No more dead links, instead Chrome will instead hallucinate what that website should have looked like.
- nxobject 2y agoThought experiment: think of a potential usecase (perhaps offline) where some smart-aleck product manager thinks this might be useful.
- GaryNumanVevo 2y agoCome to think of it, I'm kind of surprised that Google Chrome doesn't have a "this link is broken, would you like to see what we have cached for this url?" feature.
- nxobject 2y agoOr – some day when this runs on-device – a "smart preload" feature from Google Chrome. On slow connections, hallucinate a wireframe of a heavy website until it loads.
- gryfft 2y agoResulting in web elements bouncing around and changing wholesale as the site loads? Hitting the wrong button as some UI element loads late is already a painful UX stubbed toe as it is.
- gryfft 2y agoGoogle Cache used to be so useful. But they've left that all to the Internet Archive now. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-...
- GJim 2y ago> Chrome will instead hallucinate what that website should have looked like I find the term 'bullshits' to be more apt than 'hallucinate'. As something of an aside; that the purveyors of AI use the latter, whereas those who interact with it use the former, speaks volumes.
- sva_ 2y agoI find the term 'bullshitting' less fitting as it seems to anthropomorphize LLM in a way that attributes agency to them which they seem to lack. As in, someone who bullshits presumably does this for some personal gain, which doesn't seem like something an LLM is capable of atm. It might (currently) be most apt to characterize these occurrences as shifts out of the training data distribution
- djeastm 2y ago>as it seems to anthropomorphize LLM in a way "hallucinate" does the same thing, fwiw
- krapp 2y agoIt seems impossible to come up with language to describe why LLMs are both convincing and unreliable ("hallucinate","confabulate","bullshit) or why the ability to converse in natural language does not denote intelligent cognition ("stochastic parrot") without anthropomorphizing them to a degree, given that these things are designed to anthropomorphize themselves.
- burner_fyllms 2y agoYes true but saying "displaying the inherent flaws in the design that make them unsuitable for serious purposes" every time gets tedious.
- vundercind 2y ago“Hallucinate” connotes consciousness and self to me. Bullshit does not. Markov chain text generators bullshit, they don’t hallucinate. I’m not aware of anything in LLM tech that warrants implying any sort of awareness, understanding, or consciousness. Not even close.
- burner_fyllms 2y agoAbout the same time that LLMs were starting to make the news, I was spending a lot of time with an elderly relative with severe dementia, and was struck by the fact that LLMs are doing the same thing she is: the word is "confabulating", meaning to come up with stories and rationalizations to fill in gaps in knowledge and memory.
- kinlan 2y agoIt's not Chrome hallucinating, it's the websim that is generating the content.
- rng-concern 2y agoI think they mean a hypothetical future of chrome browser, not what websim currently is.