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by latexr 554 days ago
> The critical step people seem to ignore is that after the LLM generates a response, you need a filter to determine whether it's correct or not.

And therein lies the problem. A vast swath of human users tend to turn off their brain when interacting with LLMs. They expect correctness from computers and thus do not understand they produce plausible looking text, not the truth.

I agree with your thesis, your comment is correct in all its technical details, but making everyone understand those very important points and act accordingly is a continuous uphill struggle.

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| ... "but making everyone understand those very important points and act accordingly is a continuous uphill struggle."

And that right there is exactly why people who know keep writing articles and getting in arguments with people who don't know but think they do because some "expert" who also doesn't actually know anything about "AI" beyond the hype they've been sold said so... Until the "bubble pops" and the hype dies down, folks are gonna keep parroting various mistakes and misunderstandings and folks who actually understand the technology are gonna have to keep repeating the same old tired arguments... Seen it time and again over my decades in the "tech" industry. This time is once again proving to be a carbon copy of the same old script we've seen played out countless times before with each new "next big thing". Surprise!