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If I ask you a question and you don't have enough information to answer, you don't confidently give me an answer, you say you don't know. I might not know exac
by malfist 11mo ago
If I ask you a question and you don't have enough information to answer, you don't confidently give me an answer, you say you don't know.
I might not know exactly how many USB ports this motherboard has, but I wouldn't select a set of 4 and declare it to be a stacked pair.
- AstroBen 11mo agoNo-one should have the expectation LLMs are giving correct answers 100% of the time. It's inherent to the tech for them to be confidently wrong Code needs to be checked References need to be checked Any facts or claims need to be checked
- malfist 11mo agoAccording to the benchmarks here they're claiming up to 97% accuracy. That ought to be good enough to trust them right? Or maybe these benchmarks are all wrong
- AstroBen 11mo agoDoes code work if it's 97% correct? It's not okay if claims are totally made up 1/30 times Of course people aren't always correct either, but we're able to operate on levels of confidence. We're also able to weight others' statements as more or less likely to be correct based on what we know about them
- fooker 11mo ago> Does code work if it's 97% correct? Of course it does. The vast majority of software has bugs. Yes, even critical one like compilers and operating systems.
- refactor_master 11mo agoGemini routinely makes up stuff about BigQuery’s workings. “It’s poorly documented”. Well, read the open source code, reason it out. Makes you wonder what 97% is worth. Would we accept a different service with only 97% availability, and all downtime during lunch break?
- TeMPOraL 11mo agoI.e. like most restaurants and food delivery? :). Though 3% problem rate is optimistic.
- JimDabell 11mo agoSomething that is 97% accurate is wrong 3% of the time, so pointing out that it has gotten something wrong does not contradict 97% accuracy in the slightest.
- mbesto 11mo ago> Or maybe these benchmarks are all wrong You must be new to LLM benchmarks.
- dolmen 11mo ago"confidently" is a feature selected in the system prompt. As a user you can influence that behavior.
- malfist 11mo agoNo it isn't. It isn't intelligent, it's a statistical engine. Telling it to be confident or less confident doesn't make it apply confidence appropriately. It's all a facade