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We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] lateraltwo 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a nascent stage technology that reflects the world's words back at you in statistical order by way parsing user generated prompts. It's a reactive system with no autonomy to deviate from a template upon reset. It's no Rokos Basilisk inherently, just because

[–] tourist 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

am I understanding correctly that it's just a fancy random word generator

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

More or less, yes.

[–] Gigasser 6 points 3 months ago

Not random, moreso probabilistic, which is almost the same thing granted.

[–] logi 3 points 3 months ago

It's like letting auto complete always pick the next word in the sentence without typing anything yourself. But fancier.

[–] Couldbealeotard 1 points 3 months ago

Yes, but it's, like, really fancy.