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people want fuzzy analog machines with digital controls, it's impossible
by thousand_nights 1mo ago
people want fuzzy analog machines with digital controls, it's impossible
- fragmede 1mo agoI don't think they actually wanted to. That's just where the technology is, unfortunately.
- perching_aix 1mo agoHow do you mean?
- fragmede 1mo ago> people want fuzzy analog machines with digital controls, it's impossible people would love it if LLMs were deterministic and never hallucinated. It's just that the technology to do so isn't possible, so we make do with fuzzy analog machines with digital controls because we don't have digital machines with digital controls.
- topaz0 1mo agoWe absolutely have digital machines with digital controls, they're called computers, and the controls are called programming languages etc. The reason people prefer llms over programming is exactly because it lets them specify their program fuzzily, i.e. it lets them avoid going to the trouble of specifying enough detail to make it deterministic.
- fragmede 1mo agoWe have to make the distinction between specification and execution. LLM programming is great because I can underspecify and the machine will infer the rest. Usually reasonably. People want fuzzy specification but deterministic outputs