[ninetyninenine]

The technology is just a couple years old, and this article is derived from a couple months of evidence.

We can't yet say what the future holds. The nay Sayers who were so confident that LLMs were stochastic parrots are now embarrassingly wrong. This article sounds like that. Whether we are actually at a dead end or not is unknown. Why are people talking with such utter conviction when nobody truly understands what's going internally with LLMs?

[frizlab]

According to AI, the technology dates back to 1763.

[ninetyninenine]

The technology that allows AI to lie and hallucinate is only a couple years old at best.

[frizlab]

AI does not lie. AI does not hallucinate. AI does not do anything. It’s just an algorithm. We, as humans, tend to anthropomorphize it, but it has no will of its own.

[ninetyninenine]

If you haven’t realized that the human brain is just an algorithm too then you don’t know what you’re talking about.

The meaning of the word lie and hallucinate can be assigned to other algorithms outside of the algorithm that powers human brain. If something says something untrue or fabricates details then it is by definition lying or hallucinating.

It has nothing to do with anthropomorphization.

Additionally don’t think of what the human brain does as some higher level thing. We are algorithms as much as the LLM is an algorithm.

[frizlab]

> then you don’t know what you’re talking about

Do you though? How is that so obvious the human brain is “just an algorithm?” We don’t know what consciousness even is currently AFAIK. Nobody does.