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How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities

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Re: How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Attention models learn what to pay attention to. It's been found that data that begin with "Wikipedia:" are automatically weighted higher by language models during training, completely unsupervised.

But this is the same problem - Wikipedia is a secondary source and should always get overruled by the primary source.

It's still better than the information on most of the internet, which is what most of the dataset is.

Re: How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities

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The bank account anchoring bias may be just the base model predicting as best as it can, as OP described earlier. Imagine a random Internet page where you read "There is V in my X. The Y of Z A, in Bs, is _." What do you expect? V, of course! Because why would a person on the Internet ever join these two factoids if they were totally unrelated (as they are in fact in this example)? That would be a gross violation of basic writing and human communication norms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle).

Re: How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities

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It is happening in insurance right now and it is an unmitigated disaster that nobody wants to address. There is real data used for insurance premiums and claims payouts but it's being swapped out for AI slop, and the sales folks are getting bonuses for selling hot garbage and the executives are getting bonuses for buying hot garbage.

Huh, if sales uses AI/LLMs and succeeds with it, as it seemed to me youve implied with their bonuses ... Isn't that actually positive for the company? Or do you mean they succeed by promising lies via AI?

> succeeds with it

I'd worry about things which:

1. "Succeed" in the short-term, but sets the company up for long-term failure.

2. Outperforms the competition with a pattern of activity which is actually illegal.

Re: How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities

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Looking towards the future, we will need to move away from "tokens are characters to print", We're kind of starting to consider this with "tool calls" but I believe an architectural shift will become necessary. We do have some kind of understanding of what kind of concept we want to emit next, e.g. ``` [The height:property name] of [Mount Bartle Frere:proper noun, describing an object to get a property out of], [in m…

Uh oh, that sounds suspiciously like querying structured data. You can't hype SQL or worse, SPARQL, to investors!

A little bit RDF-y too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework

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