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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (7 children)

That it is not a calculator and is horrible at determinism is not debatable, however its (very biased) huge knowledge is its core feature

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  • [+] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Bullshit factory is very apt. I was using it for an open book exam and it gave answers entirely skewed to the way the question was asked.

    For example, if I asked “is X bacteria a pathogen in Y disease”, it would say yes, it was a very bad pathogen.

    If I asked “what effects does X bacteria have in this body system”, it said it was a beneficial bacteria.

    Never trust the AI summary, you have to fully read the studies.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It does lie and hallucinate a lot, especially with biased context in the question (the bullshit part). The (biased) knowledge is hiding somewhere in its weights, it is just that it is sometimes quite hard to recover.

    Your 40% depends a lot on how you ask the questions and the field of these questions. Humanity's last exam is a morr obiective benchmark for measuring the wide knowledge of LLMs.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The models themselves are actually entirely deterministic. The non-determinism you see is actually artificially introduced at the application layer to make the output seem more human. It's usually controlled by a setting called "heat", which when set to 0 will give completely reproducible results.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    This is correct, I suppose you're talking about the final softmax layer? When I said they are bad at determinism, I was talking about reasoning on deterministic rules not having deterministic output. For example, LLMs make logical deduction errors, calculation errors etc.

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