Nazarre Merchant
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My hill to die on: LLMs do not ‘hallucinate’. They’re doing exactly what they’re programmed to do: produce the highest probability token given a previous string of tokens. The hallucinators are actually us. We’re hallucinating intentionality, intelligence, emotion, 1/
01:54 PM - Apr 12, 2023
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Nazarre Merchant
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In response to Nazarre Merchant.
the full gamut of human experience, as humans almost always do in every situation. We’re the anthropic hallucinators, seeing ourselves in an inert rock, a puddle of water, a speck of dirt. Surrounded by the dullest objects, we see perfect mirrors. 2/
01:54 PM - Apr 12, 2023
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Nazarre Merchant
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In response to Nazarre Merchant.
To take an almost random example from the boundless anthropomorphizing literature, Kevin Hartnett in Quanta Magazine writes that, “[LLMs] struggle to recognize their mistakes, which limits their performance”. Virtually every word of this sentence is infused with 3/
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Linda Eisenstein
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I love this insight, humans as The Great Hallucinators.
03:24 PM - Apr 12, 2023
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