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To err is human. To err at scale is AI.
by reverius42 2y ago
To err is human. To err at scale is AI.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoTo err at scale isn't unique to AI. We don't say "no software, it can err at scale".
- trod123 2y agoIt is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips become stained, the stains become a warning...
- munk-a 2y agoCEOs embracing the marginal gains of LLMs by dumping billions into it are certainly great examples of humans erring at scale.
- fuzztester 2y agoyep, nano mega.
- fuzztester 2y agoerr, "hallucinate" is the euphemism you're looking for. ;)
- arkh 2y agoI don't like the use of hallucinate. It implies that LLM have some kind of model of reality and some times get confused. They don't have any kind of model of anything, they cannot "hallucinate", they can only output wrong results.
- fuzztester 2y agoyeah, i get you. it was a joke, though. that "hallucinate" term is a marketing gimmick to make it seem to the gullible that this "AI" (i.e. LLMs) can actually think, which is flat out BS. as many others have said here on hn, those who stand to benefit a lot from this are the ones promoting this bullcrap idea (that they (LLMs) are intelligent). greater fool theory. picks and shovels. etc. In detective or murder novels, the cliche is "look for the woman". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherchez_la_femme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherchez_la_femme in this case, "follow the money" is the translation, i.e. who really benefits (the investors and founders, the few), as opposed to who is grandly proclaimed to be the beneficiary (us, the many).
- fuzztester 2y agos/grand/grandiose/g from a search for grand vs grandiose: When it comes to bigness, there's grand and then there's grandiose. Both words can be used to describe something impressive in size, scope, or effect, but while grand may lend its noun a bit of dignity (i.e., “we had a grand time”), grandiose often implies a whiff of pretension. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grandiose https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grandiose
- fuzztester 2y ago>They don't have any kind of model of anything, they cannot "hallucinate", they can only output wrong results. it's even more fundamental than that. even if they had any model, they would not be able to think. thinking requires consciousness. only humans and some animals have it. maybe plants too. machines? no way, jose.
- cetu86 2y agoI fear that we'll see a lot of humans err at scale next Tuesday. Global warming is another example of human error at scale.
- fuzztester 2y ago>next Tuesday. USA (s)election, I guess.