George Butler
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It invents fake dates, fake quotes, even fake books.
So it just makes stuff up?
Precisely.
Because large language models don't actually understand truth.
They predict the next most predictable words based on patterns.
So if the pattern sounds right... It may generate an answer that feels perfectly believable, even when it's completely wrong.
Whoa.
So the AI can sound super confident while being totally clueless.
Exactly.
Like Biff running for office.
That's why hallucinations are dangerous.
In medicine, law, science, you can't just have a machine inventing facts.
So how do they stop it?
Better training, fact-checking systems, retrievable tools, human oversights.
But Marty, no AI is perfectly reliable.
So AI is like a DeLorean time machine.
Much like you can't guarantee 1.21 gigawatt of power, you should never assume that AI is always true.
Truth?
Where AI is going, we don't need truth.
That is Back to the Future Explains AI.