For these of us that will have sipped a bit of an excessive amount of of the "Ai" cool-aid, Ethan challenges the semantics of how we’re using the word "hallucination" - and brings
a a lot needed nudge again to actuality. Should you read about
the current crop of "artificial intelligence"
tools, you’ll eventually come throughout the phrase "hallucinate."
It’s used as a shorthand for any occasion the place
the software program simply, like, makes stuff
up: An error, a mistake, a factual misstep
- a lie. Everything - every part - that comes out of those "AI" platforms is a "hallucination." Quite simply, these companies are
slot machines for content material. They’re playing probabilities:
once you ask a big language model a question, it returns solutions aligned with the tendencies and
patterns they’ve analyzed of their training knowledge.
These platforms have no idea after they get
issues unsuitable; they definitely have no idea once they get issues proper.
Assuming an "artificial intelligence" platform is aware of the distinction between true and false is
like assuming a pigeon can play basketball. It simply ain’t constructed for it.
I’m removed from the primary to make this level.
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