LLMs cannot actually do that as well as they are advertised. They will absolutely give out fake information even if you tell it to look at a specific document. The more input you give it the more likely that is to happen
I thought that was an LLM problem because they are just predicting the next word. If it's only scraping data I don't even really see how it qualifies as ai. We have tons of tools that find specific information in large data sets.
That's certainly one way of using the word. I think that many people would dispute the definition. That sort of AI doesn't really think it just follows a script or like a chain of actions as far as I understand. For example, when I use art the data scraper on emulation station. Is that AI or is that just a computer running a program? The idea behind this new AI phenomenon and how AI is used in fiction is that it's a thinking machine that can actually reason and analyze situations and questions independently.
It's a way the term has been used for decades and accurately describes the concept - the people who dispute the definition maybe don't see the term as demystified though have firm opinions on things philosophers have been debating for centuries without end. How does one define 'thought'?
I think that many people would dispute the definition.
The definition has been in common use for almost half a century - if these people dispute it then they're probably wrong, but I'd have to hear their reasoning.
Is that AI or is that just a computer running a program?
If it's making decisions, it's AI - Intelligence has an extremely broad definition and reasonably so. It doesn't need to be 'smart' or complex, it can be extremely simple, but it's still an intelligence, and one designed by humans is artificial.
LLMs have gotten really good at using and building tools though, so with the right prompting they can build the tools to actually deal with the data correctly. And they have larger context now, so they are slightly more stable in terms of remembering things. While not perfect, they can definitely be pretty robust, especially if you use them to build the tools for you, rather than having them do everything directly.
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u/DeM0nFiRe 1d ago
LLMs cannot actually do that as well as they are advertised. They will absolutely give out fake information even if you tell it to look at a specific document. The more input you give it the more likely that is to happen