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We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 34 points 6 months ago (18 children)

Honestly I feel people are using them completely wrong.

Their real power is their ability to understand language and context.

Turning natural language input into commands that can be executed by a traditional software system is a huge deal.

Microsoft released an AI powered auto complete text box and it's genius.

Currently you have to type an exact text match in an auto complete box. So if you type cats but the item is called pets you'll get no results. Now the ai can find context based matches in the auto complete list.

This is their real power.

Also they're amazing at generating non factual based things. Stories, poems etc.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That's called "fuzzy" matching, it's existed for a long, long time. We didn't need "AI" to do that.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

No it's not.

Fuzzy matching is a search technique that uses a set of fuzzy rules to compare two strings. The fuzzy rules allow for some degree of similarity, which makes the search process more efficient.

That allows for mis typing etc. it doesn't allow context based searching at all. Cat doesn't fuzz with pet. There is no similarity.

Also it is an AI technique itself.

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bullshit, fuzzy matching is a lot older than this AI LLM.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

I didn't say LLM. AI has existed since the 50s/60s. Fuzzy matching is an AI technique.

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