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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 81 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
  • Highly approve as a long-time Wikipedia editor, though I wish they'd write it without LLM generation.
  • "Jiki" sounds like an ethnic slur, and I have no idea why.
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Now that's good jiki!

Those damn dirty jikis. They're ruining pedophilia for all of us!

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Here's the link for the lazy: https://jmail.world/wiki

I tried the AI search by the way and it sucked. The ONE thing AI could do spectacularly well is to search through vast troves of documents for relevant terms.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think you're thinking of a search engine, AIs are bad at searching. They just make up a response related to the search term based on their training data.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

AI systems designed for searching normally use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation afaik, which involves directly referencing documents rather than guessing based on initial training data.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t you just train them on the documents to be searched?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago

You get a lot fewer hallucinations if it’s presenting data from sources rather than from its neural network alone. Training data isn’t, like, “in” the AI. It’s just used to shape its creation.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

Normally no, because that is much more difficult, resource intensive, and harder to get reliable results than separately looking up the information and including it in the prompt.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

And if you train them on the document trove, they will be able to answer questions about it. It is a straight up trivial task.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Make up answers about it. The answers might be right, or they might be wrong, you won't know unless you read the actual data. So helpful ..

[–] senseamidmadness@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 days ago

For an LLM, yes. Search AI is different.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"Give me the line numbers corresponding to the saudi sheik saying he liked the torture videos"

Are you trying to be obstinate on purpose?

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think I'm trying to be obstinate, I just am.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

A natural! Mazel tov!

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If we are talking about LLMs, the other commenter is entirely right about how they function. But I'm not sure you two are talking about the same technology.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Can an LLM provide me the information I want given a search term if trained on the given dataset? Yes. That is all.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

It can provide you some information that looks similar to what you'd want. Whether it is correct is another question.

RAG can help to a degree but hallucinations still happen quite a bit.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Someone should put together a deck of cards and sell them. Kinda like what they had in Iraq.

[–] foxwolf@pawb.social 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Some guy on tiktok tried that with billionaires and every major entity he had to go through to be able to produce the cards and sell them treated him like a domestic terrorist and shut him down

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago

I bet some Chinese manufacturers wouldn't object.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I dunno why but the head-catching basket is kinda cute. Like it could have been a wooden or metal box but it's this dainty looking woven basket. Love it.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago

Oddly, there's no jikipedia article on Jeffrey Epstein himself yet.