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Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” (arstechnica.com)
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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[-] ganryuu@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd say that it's simply because most people on the internet (the dataset the LLMs are trained on) say a lot of things with absolute confidence, no matter if they actually know what they are talking about or not. So AIs will talk confidently because most people do so. It could also be something about how they are configured.

Again, they don't know if they know the answer, they just say what's the most statistically probable thing to say given your message and their prompt.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Again, they don’t know if they know the answer

Then in that respect AIs aren't even as powerful as an ordinary computer program.

say a lot of things with absolute confidence, no matter if they actually know what they are talking about or not.

That was my guess too.

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Then in that respect AIs aren't even as powerful as an ordinary computer program.

No computer programs "know" anything. They're just sets of instructions with varying complexity.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No computer programs “know” anything.

Can you stop with the nonsense? LMFAO...

if exists(thing) {
write(thing);
} else {
write("I do not know");
}

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

if exists(thing) {
write(thing);
} else {
write("I do not know");
}

Yea I see what you mean, I guess in that sense they know if a state is true or false.

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