• CineMaddie@lemmy.film
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    1 year ago

    Why are we relying on language models to answer questions. These things don’t really “know” anything right?

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      1 year ago

      No one knows anything get over yourself buddy - it gave a correct answer way more polite than I ever could so who’s gonna complain

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      1 year ago

      Don’t they pull from online sources? So it’s basically googling with extra steps and an unpredictable middleman

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        That would be right if they understood/knew what they were talking about. It’s more akin to really advanced autocorrect that sounds/reads like something the ai was trained on. So it sounds correct but really has 0 basis on truth other than “the model predicts a human would say X next”. Truth is rarely the goal of any of these machine learning language models afaik.