janhoglund on Nostr: “…language models can fundamentally be described as supercharged autocomplete ...
“…language models can fundamentally be described as supercharged autocomplete tools, prone to returning incorrect information because they are skilled at creating a facsimile of a human-written sentence—something that looks like an acceptable response—but chatbots are not doing any critical “thinking.”“
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#llm #llms #hallucinations #ai #aihype
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