• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      it guesses the next word… based on examples created by humans. It’s not just making shit up out of thin air.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.world
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      Yes, it does that because it was designed to sound convincing, and that is a good method for accomplishing that. That is the primary goal behind the design of all chatbots, and what the Turing Test was intended to gauge. Anyone who makes a chatbot wants it to sound good first and foremost.

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      7 months ago

      Lol making a mistake isn’t unique to humans. Machines make mistakes.

      Congratulations for knowing that a LLM isn’t the same as a human though, I guess!