Comment by chankstein38 3 days ago
Does anyone have more info on this? They thank Azure at the top so I'm assuming it's a flavor of GPT? How do they prevent hallucinations? I am always cautious about asking an LLM for facts because half of the time it feels like it just adds whatever it wants. So I'm curious if they addressed that here or if this is just poorly thought-out...
Thanks. There's an example page (markdown) at the very end. You can pretty easily spot some weaknesses in the generated text, it's uncanny valley territory. The most interesting thing is that the article contains numbered references, but unfortunately those footnotes are missing from the example.
If you ask an LLM what color is the sky it might say purple but if you give it a paragraph describing the atmosphere and then ask the same question it will almost always answer correctly. I don't think hallucinations are as big of a problem as people make them out to be.
The problem with LLMs is not a data problem. LLMs are stupid even on data they just generated.
One recent catastrophic failure I found: Ask an LLM to generate 10 pieces of data. Then in a second input, ask it to select (say) only numbers 1, 3, and 5 from the list. The LLM will probably return results numbered 1, 3, and 5, but chances are at least one of them will actually copy the data from a different number.
There are no hallucinations. It's just the normal bullshit people hang a more palatable name on. There is nothing else.
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650
> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.
> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
Here's the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14207