Google still trying to fix “annoying infinite looping bug,” product manager says.

Or my favorite quote from the article

“I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write… code on the walls with my own feces,” it said.

  • ganryuu@lemmy.caEnglish
    163·
    2 个月前

    You’re giving way too much credit to LLMs. AIs don’t “know” things, like “humans lie”. They are basically like a very complex autocomplete backed by a huge amount of computing power. They cannot “lie” because they do not even understand what it is they are writing.

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      Can you explain why AIs always have a “confidently incorrect” stance instead of admitting they don’t know the answer to something?

      • ganryuu@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        I’d say that it’s simply because most people on the internet (the dataset the LLMs are trained on) say a lot of things with absolute confidence, no matter if they actually know what they are talking about or not. So AIs will talk confidently because most people do so. It could also be something about how they are configured.

        Again, they don’t know if they know the answer, they just say what’s the most statistically probable thing to say given your message and their prompt.

        • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          Again, they don’t know if they know the answer

          Then in that respect AIs aren’t even as powerful as an ordinary computer program.

          say a lot of things with absolute confidence, no matter if they actually know what they are talking about or not.

          That was my guess too.

          • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
            21·
            2 个月前

            Then in that respect AIs aren’t even as powerful as an ordinary computer program.

            No computer programs “know” anything. They’re just sets of instructions with varying complexity.

            • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 个月前

              No computer programs “know” anything.

              Can you stop with the nonsense? LMFAO…

              if exists(thing) {
              write(thing);
              } else {
              write(“I do not know”);
              }

              • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
                1·
                2 个月前

                if exists(thing) {
                write(thing);
                } else {
                write(“I do not know”);
                }

                Yea I see what you mean, I guess in that sense they know if a state is true or false.

                • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  2 个月前

                  exists() is just a hashtag or other type of information lookup. The information is either there or it is not.

      • Matty_r@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        Because its an auto complete trained on typical responses to things. It doesn’t know right from wrong, just the next word based on a statistical likelihood.

          • Matty_r@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            2 个月前

            Exactly. I’m over simplifying it of course, but that’s generally how it works. Its also not “AI” as in Artificial Intelligence, in the traditional sense of the word, its Machine Learning. But of course its effectively had a semantic change over the last couple years because AI sounds cooler.

            Edit: just wanted to clarifying I’m talking about LLMs like ChatGPT etc