This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh

Gemini seems to think Connecticut contains the letter D. It also seems to have forgotten Idaho exists, but honestly I don't think anyone would miss it.
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"AI" hallucinations are not a problem that can be fixed in LLMs. They are an inherent aspect of the process and an inevitable result of the fact that LLMs are mostly probabilistic engines, with no supervisory or introspective capability, which actual sentient beings possess and use to fact-check their output. So there. :p

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's funny seeing the list and knowing connecticut is only there because it's alphabetically after colorado (in fact all four listed appear in that order alphabetically) because they probably scraped so many lists of states that the alphabetical order is the statistically most probable response in their corpus when any state name is listed.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    inevitable result of the fact that LLMs are mostly probabilistic engines

    So we should better put the question like

    "What is the probability of a D suddenly appearing in Connecticut?"

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