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Re:The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by mcguire on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:35PM (#34251116)
"So they can definitely tell you the combined liklihood that the answer is 'Peru is a cat' vs 'Peru is a country' and provide you the exact statistical likelihood of each..."

...in the context of the texts that the LLM is built on. Not in the context of the real world, where P('Peru is a country') = 1.0 and P('Peru is a cat') = #cats named Peru / #things in the world (or something).

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Re:The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by NoToP on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:32PM (#34252869)
Most of your world is text. Sure there's a sliver that isn't, but the reality you directly see is a tiny fraction of the reality you know from reports. Come to think of it, I've only ever seen reports of Peru, never actual Peru.
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