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The Internet being mostly broken at this point is driving me a little insane, and I can't believe that people who have the power to keep a functioning search engine for themselves wouldn't go ahead and do it.

I wonder about this every time I see people(?) crowing about how amazing AI is. Like, is there some secret useful AI out there that plebs like me don't get to use? Because otherwise, huh?

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[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

what are you trying to use AI for that you are feeling modern models are deficient in?

Giving correct answers more than half the time.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Can you give an example of a question where you feel like the answer is only correct half the time or less?

[–] GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

steam deck as bluetooth controller:

You can use the Steam Deck as a Bluetooth controller by enabling Bluetooth in the settings and pairing it with your PC or other devices. This allows you to utilize its controls for gaming on compatible platforms.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For future reference, when you ask questions about how to do something, it's usually a good idea to also ask if the thing is possible.

While models can do more than just extending the context, there still is a gravity to continuation.

A good example of this would be if you ask what the seahorse emoji is. Because the phrasing suggests there is one, many models go in a loop trying to identify what it is. If instead you ask "is there a seahorse emoji and if so what is it" you'll get them much more often landing on there not being the emoji as it's introduced into the context's consideration.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is also not good at finding songs where you only (mis)remember some lyrics, but it will confidently invent a fake song.

It also makes up citations.

I wish it was better at expressing how likely its answer is to be true.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah. The confabulation/hallucination thing is a real issue.

OpenAI had some good research a few months ago that laid a lot of the blame on reinforcement learning that only rewards having the right answer vs correctly saying "I don't know." So they're basically trained like taking tests where it's always better to guess the answer than not provide an answer.

But this leads to being full of shit when not knowing an answer or being more likely to make up an answer than say there isn't one when what's being asked is impossible.

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