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AI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what a prompt asked for and produces a prediction, exactly as requested. Rater, "hallucinations" are spurious replacements of factual knowledge with fictional material caused by the use of statistical process (the pseudo random number generator u…
Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 generates the HN front page 10 years from now
For comparison, here's the frontpage from ten years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-12-09
AI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what a prompt asked for and produces a prediction, exactly as requested. Rater, "hallucinations" are spurious replacements of factual knowledge with fictional material caused by the use of statistical process (the pseudo random number generator u…
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> The brain has intrinsic understanding of the world engraved in our DNA. This is not correct. The DNA encodes learning mechanisms shaped by evolution. But there is no "Wikipedia" about the world in the DNA. The DNA is shaped by the process of evolution, and is not "filled" by seemingly random information.
> But there is no "Wikipedia" about the world in the DNA. Im surprised as to how you got to that conclusion by my wording. I never claimed u have something like a knowledge base in ur DNA...
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Here it is: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html I downloaded the original article page, had claude extract the submission info to json, then wrote a script (by hand ;) to run feed each submission title to gemini-3-pro and ask it for an article webpage and then for a random number of comments. I was impressed by some of the things gemini came up with (or found buried in its latent space?). Highlights: "You’re probably…
SQLite 4.0 Release Notes: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90098234.html Another absolute gem: Columns now support "Vibe" affinity. If the data feels like an integer, it is stored as an integer. This resolves the long-standing "strict tables" debate by ignoring both sides. Also: SQLite 4.0 is now the default bootloader for 60% of consumer electronics. The build artifacts include sqlite3.wasm which can now run bare-meta…
It is now the only software in the world still written in C89.
AI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what a prompt asked for and produces a prediction, exactly as requested. Rater, "hallucinations" are spurious replacements of factual knowledge with fictional material caused by the use of statistical process (the pseudo random number generator u…
Want to second this. Asking the model to create a work of fiction and it complying isn't a pathology. Mozart wasn't "hallucinating" when he created "The Marriage of Figaro".
He didn't hallucinate the Marriage of Figaro but he may well have been hallucinating.