A few months ago, someone asked Google for countries that start with an H. In German.
It listed Hungary, which is called “Ungarn” in German. OK, an understandable mistake. But then it gave the additional information that Hungary sometimes gets called Holland.
Two things upset me:
People believe the answers.
Nobody is talking about all the stupid mistakes AI is making. It should have all stopped after LLM AIs thought blueberry has 3 Bs in it.
LLMs are really bad with letters, and in my limited understanding that’s because they don’t see words as strings of letters, they see them as tokens. It’s all numbers by the time the LLM is processing it.
A few months ago, someone asked Google for countries that start with an H. In German.
It listed Hungary, which is called “Ungarn” in German. OK, an understandable mistake. But then it gave the additional information that Hungary sometimes gets called Holland.
Two things upset me:
I never hear about anything else
LLMs are really bad with letters, and in my limited understanding that’s because they don’t see words as strings of letters, they see them as tokens. It’s all numbers by the time the LLM is processing it.