Re:Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of larg...
by ninetyninenine on Sunday February 25, 2024 @12:45PM
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Of course it can. Simply ask the LLM about itself. chatGPT4 can answer.
In fact. That question is one of the more trivial questions it will most likely not hallucinate on.
The reason why I alluded to humans here is because I'm saying we are setting the bar too high. It's like everyone is saying it hallucinates and therefore it can't understand anything. I'm saying that we hallucinate too and because of that LLMs can approach humans and human level understanding.
That's not the point being argued. Understanding, critical thinking, knowledge, common sense, etc. all these things exist on a spectrum - both in principle and certainly in humans. In fact, in any particular human there are different levels of competence across these dimensions.
What we are debating, is whether or not, an LLM can have understanding itself. One test is: can an LLM understand understanding? The human mind has come to the remarkable understanding that understanding itself is provisional and incomplete.