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by antihipocrat 459 days ago
I wonder whether we hold LLMs to a different standard because we have a long term reinforced expectation for a computer to produce an exact result?

One of my first teachers said to me that a computer won't ever output anything wrong, it will produce a result according to the instructions it was given.

LLMs do follow this principle as well, it's just that when we are assessing the quality of output we are incorrectly comparing it to the deterministic alternative, and this isn't really a valid comparison.