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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by AndrewKemendo on Thursday January 22, 2026 @08:19AM (#46718880)
> I've seen an interesting behavior in India. If I ask someone on the street for directions, they will always give me an answer, even if they don't know. If they don't know, they'll make something up.

Isn’t this the precise failure pattern that everybody shits on LLMs for?

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by chrisjj on Thursday January 22, 2026 @11:43AM (#46721668)
Only on surface. The difference is the LLM doesn't know it doesn't know. An LLM provides the best solition it has regardless of whether that solution is in any way fit for purpose.
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by DominikPeters on Thursday January 22, 2026 @12:39PM (#46722538)
If you inspect the Chain of Thought summaries, the LLM often knows full well what it is doing.
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by chrisjj on Thursday January 22, 2026 @01:24PM (#46723164)
That's not knowing. That's just parotting in smaller chunks.
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by koliber on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:06AM (#46719389)
Yes.
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by fakedang on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:32AM (#46719699)
Hence proved

AGI = A Guy/Gal in India

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by soco on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:23AM (#46720443)
Ah so that's what Anthropic's Amodei meant when saying AGI was attained - they actually reached that guy/gal.
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by direwolf20 on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:28AM (#46720508)
Perhaps they meant detained.
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by Nevermark on Thursday January 22, 2026 @11:40AM (#46721627)
Hopefully, retained. But, a tained for sure.
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by bicepjai on Thursday January 22, 2026 @12:55PM (#46722789)
This is really funny.
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by melvinmelih on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:15AM (#46720310)
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by AndrewKemendo on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:21AM (#46720407)
Almost like…technology embeds the latent behaviors of the data that produced it!

Imagine that

Someone should really write a paper on that (hint: it’s the entire basis of information theory)

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