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This speaks to the psychology of it all. Over my life I've been "trained" that humans are unreliable and subject-to-change while computers are deterministic an
by bruce511 2y ago
This speaks to the psychology of it all.
Over my life I've been "trained" that humans are unreliable and subject-to-change while computers are deterministic and will give the same output every time (given the same input.)
LLMs though are very human. Ask it the same question and you'll get different answers. Sometimes grammatically different, sometimes factually different.
This is partly why hallucinations freaked people out. I expect a correct, and deterministic answer. And it just made stuff up. Then it made up URLs to validate the answer.
In other words you have computers behaving like humans. Which was indeed the whole point of them to begin with.
But psychologically this is disturbing.
- suddenlybananas 2y agoIf you genuinely believe that LLM hallucinations are like human behaviour, you must not interact a lot with humans.
- anshumankmr 2y agoLLMs are not human intelligence, but are similarly fallible, though we don't have ways to jailbreak humans yet. And perhaps even worse off.
- habinero 2y agoThe reason you get different answers is there's randomness built into generating text from the statistical model. It's not any more complex than that.