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   Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 16:38:47 JST Jonathan Schofield

   LLMs don’t understand the text they generate. Which is how this happens:

   “Today, as a test, I entered a criminal judge I knew into Copilot, with the name and place of residence in Tübingen: The judge was promptly named as the perpetrator of a judgment he had made himself a few weeks earlier against a psychotherapist who had been convicted of sexual abuse”
   https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/26/microsoft_bing_copilot_ai_halluciation/

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     Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 16:38:47 JST Jonathan Schofield

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     …billions of dollars and years of effort spent on tools that are incapable of being safe but are put into the public domain to try and change them…

     from being unsafe in unpredictable ways to… being unsafe in unpredictable ways.

     #AI

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     Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 16:39:25 JST Jonathan Schofield

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     …politicians: gotta give the AI hawkers their capital runway though so we can waft the overvaluation bubble pop down the road until after the next election

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 16:39:54 JST Aral Balkan

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     @urlyman 💯