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Would you say the same of humans?
by esafak 2y ago
Would you say the same of humans?
- doug_durham 2y agoI would absolutely say the exact same thing about humans. Except that humans know less. We also have a sense of uncertainty which is absent in LLMs.
- skydhash 2y agoWe have the same generative ability, but we gradually learn the correct answers (not necessarily truths), so we don't go around generating incorrect ones (not necessarily falsehoods). Then we know when we don't have any answers, so generating one is fruitless. LLMs is just generation. Whatever pattern they embedded, they will happily extrapolate and add wrong information than just use it as a meta model.
- munchler 2y agoThat is a good question. I think the biggest difference is that humans have access to sensory data that grounds us in reality. If you put a human in complete sensory deprivation, I think we would hallucinate much more.
- eric_h 2y agoindeed, isn't hallucination one of the purported intended effects of a sensory deprivation tank?