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by sellmesoap 64 days ago
From the archive.pH link: > company’s current cash position will last four about six more quarters.

Is that the type of mistake an LLM makes?

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No, that's the type of mistake a human makes.

LLMs write by picking which next word best correlates to a response from the prompt, so they tend to follow grammar extremely well but make logical mistakes.

Humans write by forming their thoughts into word sounds, then transcribing them, but a single pronunciation can have multiple spellings, depending on the context, but the context is somewhat abstracted by that point, so humans regularly write homophones or malapropisms of the appropriate word.