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> I'm not even trying to convince you that these programs are perfect, I'm just trying to make sure that you understand that these aren't categorical errors and the things you consider successes aren't even happening.

Yea, we're just talking past each other. I believe i understand what you're saying. I on the otherhand, am describing errors in UX.

Your point seems pedantic, tbh. Hopefully by now i've expressed something in the way of convincing you that: for the little i do "know" about these, admittedly not much, it is that they're nothing but pattern predictors. Token outputs based on token inputs. No intelligence. Yet you spend repeated replies which sound effectively like "Stop calling them errors!" when they are very clearly errors in the context of UX.

Your argument, if i understand correctly, is pointless because the goal of the app is to have the LLM prediction be aligned with a human-centric world view. Up is not down, and the LLM should not predict tokens that espouses that. In that context, the LLM replying "Up is indeed down" would be an error. Yet repeatedly you argue that it's not an error.

In my view your argument would be better spent saying "The LLM application as we strive for today is impossible. It will never be. It's snake oil. LLMs will never be reasonably and consistently correct by human interpretation"

I don't know if that's your view or not. But it's at least not talking past me, about a point i'm not even talking about. My frame for this conversation was if we can make token prediction aligned with human goals of accuracy. You saying inaccuracies are not errors "categorically" isn't in line with my original question as i see at least. It's apples and oranges.




We're not talking past each other, you're just embarrassed.


Embarrassed about what, exactly? You seem hostile, i'm trying not to.

I stand by everything i said.

> My hope is that even if it never goes beyond being an autocomplete; if we can improve the training dataset, help it not conflict with itself, etc - that maybe the autocomplete will be insanely useful.

I stand by my first post's summary. Which is "never going past an autocomplete".

You're pedantic, and struggling to move past the fact that something can be both token prediction and still have successes and failures in the user perception. Inaccuracies.

How you write software with such a mindset is beyond me.




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