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It’s honestly a little surprising that LLMs are good at information retrieval from their training set at all. (Specifically, it's not a surprise that they hallu
by bcoates 1y ago
It’s honestly a little surprising that LLMs are good at information retrieval from their training set at all. (Specifically, it's not a surprise that they hallucinate-it's a surprise that sometimes they don't at rates better than chance)
It’s not necessary for them to ever be reliable at it for them to be useful... just stop asking them to do things they aren't good at, and may never be.
- jaggederest 1y ago> just stop asking them to do things they aren't good at, and may never be. So what are they good at then? Is there a list I can refer to? Maybe I should ask an AI to make a list of things it's good at?
- bcoates 1y agoThey convert text to embedding vectors and vice versa. So text->text transformations, autocomplete, adding a text input or output to another model (image generation/scene description), vector similarity search, things of this nature. The pseudo-agi AI girlfriend is a parlor trick
- southernplaces7 1y ago>Maybe I should ask an AI to make a list of things it's good at? But then maybe it's bad at this too, and simply lies to you....