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generating information without regard to the truth is bullshitting, not necessarily malicious intent.

for example, this is bullshit because it’s words with no real thought behind it: “if being correct was important, the developers would have taken an entirely different approach”


If you are asking a professional high-stakes questions about their expertise in a work context and they are just bullshitting you, it's fair to impugn their motives. Similarly if someone is using their considerable talent to place bullshit artists in positions of liability-free high-stakes decisions.

Your second comment is more flippant than mine, as even AI boosters like Chollet and LeCun have come around to LLMs being tangential to delivering on their dreams, and that's before engaging with formal methods, V&V, and other approaches used in systems that actually value reliability.


Isn’t hallucinating inherent to biological brains too?

It’s normal in small degrees even for mentally healthy individuals.


Stop anthropomorphizing the token generator please.


lmao, not what i said. fix your attention head.

metaphors grounded in reality are fine. otherwise don’t call it a “generator”


oh but think of all the “refactoring” you’re missing out on.

We have a DevRel engineer specifically working to get technical debt tickets into sprints.

So you get to refactor! Oh gee!


I think it's fair. It discerns what sounds are important, languagey sounds. It discovered but did not understand


If there’s going to be a lawsuit, go after Colt before Anthropic.


friends! let us have it both ways!

Humans have telepathy and cognitive biases!


What if collective cognitive biases are the result of telepathy?


But telepathy, as traditionally understood, isn't scientifically proven...


This was already gold but went platinum with: "At the present time I do not believe there is any man of this kind."


without the z it’s entirely within the realm of English sounds.

Practice slow and I think it works.


But is it a single syllable?


I see it more as a modifier on the T sound at that point. Instead of letting your tongue go at the end of the T, you hold it in place because of the N.


Sounds Dutch not English.


unaffjordable


great, so they have endless puns now too.


There’s norway to prevent it


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