• ranzispa@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I can tell a piece of software to do the maths for ms. Sometimes the results appear to work with reality.

    People complain about LLMs hallucinating, but they have no idea of how many assumptions and just plain “everybody does it this way, I guess it works” are there in scientific research.

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      2 months ago

      It’s called the heuristic method and those doing it know the limitations. Whereas LLMs will just confidently put out garbage claiming it true.

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        2 months ago

        Scientific calculations - and other approaches as well - put out garbage all the time, that is the main point of what I said above.

        Some limitations are known, just like it is known that LLMs have the limitation of hallucinating.

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          2 months ago

          I didn’t notice your critique on the outcome of results, but how they were achieved. LLM’s hallucinating are making computers make ”human errors”, which makes them less deterministic, the key reason I prefer doing some things on a computer.