LanternEverywhere

Those rinse cycle products are bad for you, so I’ve heard.

Yup, knock on wood, I’ve had lots of Seagate drives over the decades and I’ve never had any of them go bad. I’ve had two WD drives and they both failed

I just asked chatgpt4 that exact question copy and pasted, and here is its response:

There was no president of the United States in 3500 BC. The United States of America did not exist as a country until 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed. ¹ The first president of the United States was George Washington, who took office in 1789. ² Before that, the territory that is now the United States was inhabited by various Native American tribes and colonized by European powers such as Spain, France, and Great Britain. ³¹: Declaration of Independence
²: List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia
³: [History of the United States - Wikipedia].

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2/27/2024
(1) List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States.
(2) List of presidents of the United States - Simple English Wikipedia, the … https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States.
(3) President of the United States - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States.
(4) List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States.
(5) List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States.
(6) List of U.S. Presidents in Chronological Order - HistoryNet. https://www.historynet.com/us-presidents/.
(7) Getty Images. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/seal-of-the-president-of-the-united-states-royalty-free-image/1084903580.

Are you using 4? Because it’s much better than the earlier versions

That’s a fun story, but isn’t applicable to the topic here. That could very easily be verified as true or false by a secondary system. In fact you can just ask Wolfram Alpha. Ask it what are the odds that any two people share the same birthday. I just asked it that exact question and it replied 1/365

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in fact I just asked that exact same question to chatgpt4 and it also replied 1/365

There are already existing multiple different LLMs that are essentially completely different. In fact this is one of the major problems with LLMs, because when you add even a small amount of change into an LLM it turns out to radically alter the output it returns for huge amounts of seemingly unrelated topics.

For your other point, I never said bouncing their answers back and forth for verification was trivial, but it’s definitely doable.

That’s not a problem at all, I already use prompts that allow the LLM to say they don’t know an answer, and it does take that option when it’s unable to find a correct answer. For instance I often phrase questions like this “Is it known whether or not red is a color in the rainbow?” And for questions where it doesn’t know the answer it now will tell you it doesn’t know.

And to your other point, the systems may not be capable of discerning their own hallucinations, but a totally separate LLM will be able to do so pretty easily.

Give an example of a statement that you think couldn’t be verified

No, I’ve used LLMs to do exactly this, and it works. You prompt it with a statement and ask “is this true, yes or no?” It will reply with a yes or no, and it’s almost always correct. Do this verification through multiple different LLMs and it would eliminate close to 100% of hallucinations.

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I just tested it multiple times in chatgpt4, and it got every true/false answer correct.

I extremely doubt that hallucination is a limitation in final output. It may be an inevitable part of the process, but it’s almost definitely a surmountable problem.

Just off the top of my head I can imagine using two separate LLMs for a final output, the first one generates an initial output, and the second one verifies whether what it says is accurate. The chance of two totally independent LLMs having the same hallucination is probably very low. And you can add as many additional separate LLMs for re-verification as you like. The chance of a hallucination making it through multiple LLM verifications probably gets close to zero.

While this would greatly multiply the resources required, it’s just a simple example showing that hallucinations are not inevitable in final output

No that still looks wrong, because now it looks like that’s a proper noun

Capitalizing all letters only makes sense if you’re quoting an actual news article headline, like from the New York Times or wherever. But capitalizing the first letter of every word makes reading the sentence stilted and hard to read, so should be avoided whenever possible

Yup, in the US you shouldn’t tip on takeout orders

I highly doubt that white is the most visible color in term of human noticeability

Agreed, and it matches my experience. I go to libraries pretty frequently and there’s always a children’s section, and the non-children areas get little to no noise from children.

Where, quote it for me. I looked in 5 separate dictionaries, they all say it’s a negative thing.

Huh, definitionally it’s always a bad thing, i wonder why people around you use it that way

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whammy

Sounds like a double win, not a double whammy

I think maybe i get your question. I believe you’re asking:

“How does navigation software decide which task you should do at any point? Is the specific maneuver task hardcoded into the map, or does the device itself decide which task it should tell you to do?”

If that’s the question then the answer is almost entirely the device (or server the device is connected to) decides on the fly. There are generally no navigation instructions hardcoded into the map data (unless there’s a particularly tricky intersection). The navigation software will simply be programmed to use specific task words for each angle of an intersection. Like:

If route angle = -5 to 5 degrees, then say “turn right”

If route angle = 6 to 85 degrees, then say “bear right”

That’s similar but different in a lot of meaningful ways. Hydro pumping like that requires a relatively large body of water next to a large geographical height right nearby. This new system doesn’t require any water, and it uses a man made hole in the ground that’s already been created and which otherwise would be simply unused