Google still trying to fix “annoying infinite looping bug,” product manager says.

Or my favorite quote from the article

“I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write… code on the walls with my own feces,” it said.

  • ganryuu@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    You’re giving way too much credit to LLMs. AIs don’t “know” things, like “humans lie”. They are basically like a very complex autocomplete backed by a huge amount of computing power. They cannot “lie” because they do not even understand what it is they are writing.

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Can you explain why AIs always have a “confidently incorrect” stance instead of admitting they don’t know the answer to something?

      • ganryuu@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I’d say that it’s simply because most people on the internet (the dataset the LLMs are trained on) say a lot of things with absolute confidence, no matter if they actually know what they are talking about or not. So AIs will talk confidently because most people do so. It could also be something about how they are configured.

        Again, they don’t know if they know the answer, they just say what’s the most statically probable thing to say given your message and their prompt.

        • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Again, they don’t know if they know the answer

          Then in that respect AIs aren’t even as powerful as an ordinary computer program.

          say a lot of things with absolute confidence, no matter if they actually know what they are talking about or not.

          That was my guess too.

          • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
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            4 days ago

            Then in that respect AIs aren’t even as powerful as an ordinary computer program.

            No computer programs “know” anything. They’re just sets of instructions with varying complexity.

            • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              4 days ago

              No computer programs “know” anything.

              Can you stop with the nonsense? LMFAO…

              if exists(thing) {
              write(thing);
              } else {
              write(“I do not know”);
              }

              • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
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                4 days ago

                if exists(thing) {
                write(thing);
                } else {
                write(“I do not know”);
                }

                Yea I see what you mean, I guess in that sense they know if a state is true or false.

                • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  15 hours ago

                  exists() is just a hashtag or other type of information lookup. The information is either there or it is not.

      • Matty_r@programming.devEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Because its an auto complete trained on typical responses to things. It doesn’t know right from wrong, just the next word based on a statistical likelihood.