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Meta AI claims to have a child in a NYC public school
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#22I’d be skeptical of a claim like this.
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#23And that child’s name? dell-32a7iZ
It'd be funnier if that was a valid Dell service tag. ;)
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#26The problem here isn't that an LLM hallucinates. The problem is that nobody asked for an AI response, and Meta pushed content to a forum that makes such claims, which could easily mislead or at least confuse people not sophisticated enough to be on the lookout for hallucinations. Meta should be (and is) in the business of policing third-party spam on their forums that does exactly this. We can infer what must've happ…
In regards to your last question, it’s “an LLM”. The distinction between using “a” vs “an” is one based on the immediately proceeding syllable sound rather than the letter. If it’s proceeded by a vowel, then use “an”, and if it’s proceeded by a consonant, use “a”. Because “LLM” is pronounced “el el em”, the first syllable sound is “eh”—a vowel. The same letter may need different “a”/“an” article based on how the word…
As someone with a photographic memory as my main (because it's most the "performant" one I have) learning tool, I strongly feel that somebody should make a really long list of most commonly used words which should use "an", and conversely, a list of words which should use "a" of a similar length (both as two columns of text). I'm not really eager to "run" the check (mentioned under the link) in my head every time I need to choose an article, and the biggest problem, and the reason behind some of the mistakes in choosing the right article I sometimes do, is that I don't really see some the less common words which should use "an" (despite starting with a letter which suggest otherwise) this often, or actually, often enough.
And when I'm reading a text for any other purpose than memorizing article choices (so, 99,999% of cases), they don't get enough of my attention to get remembered - it's the meaning of other words which get it, and big part of which will get remembered, not the articles used before them.
Being able to look on such a list every few days for say, a month, would definitely help to remember most of these cases.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
In regards to your last question, it’s “an LLM”. The distinction between using “a” vs “an” is one based on the immediately proceeding syllable sound rather than the letter. If it’s proceeded by a vowel, then use “an”, and if it’s proceeded by a consonant, use “a”. Because “LLM” is pronounced “el el em”, the first syllable sound is “eh”—a vowel. The same letter may need different “a”/“an” article based on how the word…
As someone with a photographic memory as my main (because it's most the "performant" one I have) learning tool, I strongly feel that somebody should make a really long list of most commonly used words which should use "an", and conversely, a list of words which should use "a" of a similar length (both as two columns of text). I'm not really eager to "run" the check (mentioned under the link) in my head every time I n…
For an abbreviation, it's the first letter's pronunciation. You could easily make a list of those 26.
For an acronym, it's the word's pronunciation, and is (almost?) always the same as the standard rule: Vowels vs consonants.
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As someone with a photographic memory as my main (because it's most the "performant" one I have) learning tool, I strongly feel that somebody should make a really long list of most commonly used words which should use "an", and conversely, a list of words which should use "a" of a similar length (both as two columns of text). I'm not really eager to "run" the check (mentioned under the link) in my head every time I n…
For an abbreviation, it's the first letter's pronunciation. You could easily make a list of those 26. For an acronym, it's the word's pronunciation, and is (almost?) always the same as the standard rule: Vowels vs consonants.
"Almost" can make a big difference when writing stuff where formal style is expected. For instant messaging, yeah, probably one doesn't have to care.
When writing, you put articles before a letter, but they're based on what phoneme they precede. Therefore, when purely classifying letters, there's much more combinations than 26. In hundreds or lower thousands, possibly. Or more.
That's the difference, and for me it's frankly to memorize a big look-up table of most commonly used words (and which articles should precede them), because this doesn't require any effort to me, than to run an "algorithm" translating to phonemes every time I write something. In a quick reading (not reading out aloud, or even mentally mimicking reading something out aloud), wrong article being used won't necessarily get easily picked up. It's the sheer laziness, I guess.
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You’re not worried about the child’s well-being? Monster.
Well, at least the kid can get a meal at school; sure not getting anything at home.
If that's a child of an "AI", I'm not sure does they even need "food" in form of carbohydrates, fats and proteins (or amino acids) that humans need. Electricity is all they need, probably. Or maybe even directly it's light, if they're an optical computing device. Or if you purely regard them as a software thing, computing power is all they need.
Much lesser needs of dwelling space, too.
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#30At this point, the reputational risk that one malfunctioning generative AI has on _all_ generative AI is concerning.
The reason this occurs as a narrative is because hallucination is a widespread issue with LLMs, and thus can be fairly generalised across most deployments of them.