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It's more like a hammer that never drives nails straight unless you hold it in a specific uncomfortable manner. You shouldn't be required to tell an informatio
by Sharlin 2mo ago
It's more like a hammer that never drives nails straight unless you hold it in a specific uncomfortable manner.
You shouldn't be required to tell an information retrieval tool to actually retrieve information rather than making it up!
- lnenad 2mo ago> It's more like a hammer that never drives nails straight unless you hold it in a specific uncomfortable manner. I mean sure, pick any analogy, still doesn't change the fact that there are right uses and wrong uses; right ways to use it and wrong ways to use it. > information retrieval tool How is an LLM this? It's a non-deterministic word generator.
- joshribakoff 2mo agoAn LLM is not what the public was “sold”, they were “sold” a personified agent. That is the gap.
- lnenad 2mo agoWe're not talking about "the public". The person writing the article is a very experienced software engineer. There shouldn't be a gap in understanding.
- rglover 2mo ago> You shouldn't be required to tell an information retrieval tool to actually retrieve information rather than making it up! And therein lies the problem: perception. LLMs are treated like information retrieval tools but in reality are probability machines that return plausible/mostly accurate information. They're not searching, they're inferring and then guessing. That the guesses are often quite good means that we can easily fool ourselves with whatever it spits out. We call it hallucination but it's a feature, not a bug.