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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by Ekaros on Sunday October 13, 2024 @02:03PM (#41830112)
I always wonder about that. Very often it seems that you need to be able to LLM that they are wrong. And then they happily correct themselves. But if you do not know that the answer is wrong how can you get correct answer?
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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by o11c on Sunday October 13, 2024 @02:46PM (#41830472)
Worse: if you think the LLM is wrong and try to correct it, it will happily invent something completely different (and actually wrong this time).
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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by milesvp on Sunday October 13, 2024 @04:01PM (#41831055)
This happened to me the other day. I had framed a question in the ordinal case, and since I was trying to offload thinking anyways, I forgot that my use case was rotated, and failed to apply the rotation when testing the LLM answer. I corrected it twice before it wrapped around to the same (correct) previous answer, and that’s when I noticed my error. I apologized, added the rotation piece to my question, and it happily gave me a verifiably correct answer.
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