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Re:Microsoft Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI Model to US Governme... by 2devnull on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:57PM (#36314006)
If one gave you a 10,000 page bibliography would you read all the sources? The same problem exists (long bibliographies) in human knowledge transfer. I’m suggesting this is an architectural issue, not a LLM problem per se. LLMs are not supposed to be AGI.
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Re:Microsoft Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI Model to US Governme... by creata on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:13PM (#36314328)
I never need to read all the sources, only the sources that are relevant to the bits that I'm referencing, no?
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Re:Microsoft Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI Model to US Governme... by 2devnull on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:14PM (#36316337)
If you only need bits of info with citation, an LLM can do that. It’s synthesis that’s the problem. It’s true for humans as well.
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Re:Microsoft Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI Model to US Governme... by NBJack on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:03PM (#36319417)
An actual citation and a string that happens to be formatted to look like a citation are very different. I wish we were at the point that most LLMs could do the former.
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Re:Microsoft Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI Model to US Governme... by hughesjj on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:36AM (#36323126)
I've seen the former happen for some GitHub docs and when enabling plugins.

I agree there's cause for concern, and I hope it's a gradual rollout that's introspected in between each propagation of such, but I definitely think it's viable to be used no more less safely than other tooling in the government today (for better or worse).

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