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[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 84 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Is it just me or the clocks frequently break or change appearance without the page being refreshed?

Edit: nevermind, I skipped past the sentence explaining that every minute, the site prompts LLMs for a new solution. This is hilariously sad how LLMs aren't able to be consistent from one prompt to another.

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 39 points 2 days ago

It's the expected result if your big ol' artificial intelligence wannabe is ultimately just a stochastic word combinator.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if every single token is, at the end, chosen by random dice roll (and they are) then this is exactly what you'd expect.

[–] kersplomp@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that’s a massive oversimplification

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

not really. If the system outputs a probability distribution, then by definition, you're picking somewhat randomly. So not really a simplification

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 4 points 2 days ago

This is hilariously sad how LLMs aren’t able to be consistent from one prompt to another.

Typically that's configurable. Like for a chatbot, you'd want it to give the same/similar results for a given question, where with a character creator, you might want the results to vary so you can re-run until you get something you like.

Of course that wouldn't be as funny here.

[–] vyzu@feddit.fr 1 points 2 days ago

You can click on the button in the top right corner (with a question mark) to have explanations. The clocks are refreshed every minute