Does using authoritative sources is fool proof? For example, is everything written in Wikipedia factually correct? I don’t believe so unless I actually check it. Also, what about reddit or stack overflow? Can they be considered factually correct? To some extent, yes. But not completely. That is why most of these LLMs give such arbitrary answers. They extrapolate on information they have no way knowing or understanding.

Why do you even think that? Children don’t ask questions? Don’t try to find answers?

This is something I already mentioned previously. LLMs have no way of fact checking, no measure of truth or falsity built into. In the training process, it probably accepts every piece of text as true. This is very different from how our minds work. When faced with a piece of text we have many ways to deal with it, which range from accepting it as it is to going on the internet to verify it to actually designing and conducting experiments to prove or disprove the claim. So, yeah what ChatGPT outputs is probably bullshit.

Of course, the solution is that ChatGPT be trained by labelling text with some measure of truth. Of course, LLMs need so much data that labelling it all would be extremely slow and expensive and suddenly, the fast moving world of AI to screech to almost a halt, which would be unacceptable to the investors.

Happy birthday.

I call it The Price of Love.

I just realised that we are more worried about mortality of our loved ones than our own.

Running in circles in an open field is a worthwhile aspiration. We should all aspire to it, IMO.

What is a polite way to say “f**k off”?

The material is too ductile. I am at the peak of a narrow yield curve and then, snap, material breaks.

The sign cannot stop the cat, because he can’t read.

Testing? Nah, it’s for tasting.

So, Todd is denser than a neutron star.

Honestly, Naruto did let me down. I choose not to believe this obviously real screenshot.

Yeah, I am skeptical. What would be the energy expenditure of actually storing CO2 into those blocks and what about transporting them? I have a feeling this is like carbon capture plants, great for the headlines, but not really a practical solution.

I am disappointed that I exist.

Zombie moose scary…

Not by much, but I sure am excited about AAAAA games.

Don’t worry Geoff, when it comes to AAA games, my expectations are already at rock-bottom. I expect almost every single AAA game to have some kind of catch be it microtransactions, or live service, or some shitty launcher requirement, etc.

Should have used toxic glue, if they ran out of nontoxic one.

So much cheese wasted. It’s really tragic.

Yeah, I have to agree with you. For example, I would have no problem using a decently tested LLMs for engineering simply because Engineering usually accounts for errors and uses appropriate factors to accommodate them. Sure LLMs could be get more accurate in future, but I believe the error will reduce asymptotically. Essentially, more accurate LLMs get, it will get that much harder to increase the accuracy. There is always a price to pay, IMO.