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ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row
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It is exactly my point.
None of the "predictive" apps pretend to have knowledge, to give you answers, to "think", to "hallucinate", to "give you wrong answers".
Everybody knows the weather app is "ballpark predictions", even though it's based on physical events that are measurable and extrapolatable.
Same with maps. People who follow maps 100% end up in lakes. The predictions the maps give are based on real-life measured data, topical for that particular frame of time.
With LLMs, the input is language. The output is language. It wraps the generated text in pleasantries to imitate knowledge. Unless it's fed 100% correct material (no such thing), the output is 100% bullshit that sounds about right; right enough to lure naive and, maybe, less IT-literate people to make them feel they're getting "correct" information.
Statistical engine. No knowledge. Garbage input, garbage output. No sign of "intelligence" whatsoever.
"asking" it questions is not carring about the "information" it returns.
So you can feed a weather model weather data, but you cannot feed a language model, programming languages and get accurate predictions?
Basically no one is saying that “yeah I just go off the output, it’s perfect”. People use it to get a ballpark and then they work off that. Much like a meteorologist would do.
It’s not 100% or 0%. With imperfect data, we get imperfect responses. But that’s no difference from a weather model. We can still get results that are 50% or 80% accurate with less than 100% correct information. Given that a large enough amount of the data is correct.
Yeah, no difference between real-life physical measurements & data calculations made from proven formulas, and random shit collected of random places on the internet (even, possibly, random "LLM" generated sentences).
People do "just go off the output". There are people like that in this very thread.
Statements like "no difference" are just idiotic.
Of course there is. But weather forecasting have also gotten ridiculously much more accurate with time. Better data, better models. We’ll get there with language models as well.
I’m not arguing language models of today are amazingly accurate, I’m arguing they can be. That they are statistical models is not the problem. That they are new statistical models are.
A broken clock is accurate twice in a day.
I'm arguing that they will never be accurate, because accuracy is not possible. I mean, look at Wikipedia. At least it's written by people.
Full self driving next year, right?