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Correct, people heard "AI" and went completely mad imagining things it might be able to do. And the current models act like happy dogs that are eager to give an answer to anything even if they have to make one up on the spot.
LLM are just plagiarizing bullshitting machines. It's how they are built. Plagiarism if they have the specific training data, modify the answer if they must, make it up from whole cloth as their base programming. And accidentally good enough to convince many people.
If that's really how they work, it wouldn't explain these:
https://notes.aimodels.fyi/researchers-discover-emergent-linear-strucutres-llm-truth/
https://notes.aimodels.fyi/self-rag-improving-the-factual-accuracy-of-large-language-models-through-self-reflection/
https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/01/03/chess-world-models.html
https://poke-llm-on.github.io/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207
I will read those, but I bet "accidentally good enough to convince many people." still applies.
A lot of things from LLM look good to nonexperts, but are full of crap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207
2 author paper with interesting evidence. Again, evidence not proof. Wait for the papers that cite this one.
https://notes.aimodels.fyi/self-rag-improving-the-factual-accuracy-of-large-language-models-through-self-reflection/
A cool paper. Using the LLM to judge value of new inputs.
I am always skeptical of summaries of journal articles. Even well meaning people can accidentally distort the conclusions.
Still LLM is a bullshit generator that can check bullshit level of inputs.
https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/01/03/chess-world-models.html
Author later discusses training on you data versus general datasets.
I am out of my depth, but does not seem to provide strong evidence for the modem not just repeating information that shows up a lot for the given inputs.
https://poke-llm-on.github.io/
Reinforcement learning. Cool project. Still no need to "know" anything. I usually play this type of have with short rules and monitoring the current state.
https://notes.aimodels.fyi/researchers-discover-emergent-linear-strucutres-llm-truth/
References a 2 author paper. I am not an expert in the field, but it is important to read the papers that reference this one. Those papers will have criticisms that are thought out. In general, fewer authors means less debate between the authors and easier to miss details.