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by wokwokwok 998 days ago
It’s fair though, to say that in safety critical situations where human lives are at stake…

> can reduce the degree to which they occur significantly

May not be good enough, unless you can quantify the degree to which they happen.

1/10? 1/1000? 1/1000000? More in situations like fog or rain? Perfectly safe in normal conditions?

The problem here isnt hallucinations, correct. All systems are unsafe to some degree.

The problem is that the degree to which it is a problem is (afaik) quite difficult to quantify.

It’s not ok, if you just vaguely wave your hand and say it doesn’t happen that much. Or you can mitigate it to some degree by doing such and such. How much?

You have to actually be able to articulate the degree of risk involved.

There is a risk. Fact.

Is it acceptable? That’s the question, and no one seems to be able really answer it clearly.