• Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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    I think you’re thinking of a search engine, AIs are bad at searching. They just make up a response related to the search term based on their training data.

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          You get a lot fewer hallucinations if it’s presenting data from sources rather than from its neural network alone. Training data isn’t, like, “in” the AI. It’s just used to shape its creation.

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Normally no, because that is much more difficult, resource intensive, and harder to get reliable results than separately looking up the information and including it in the prompt.

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      And if you train them on the document trove, they will be able to answer questions about it. It is a straight up trivial task.

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        Make up answers about it. The answers might be right, or they might be wrong, you won’t know unless you read the actual data. So helpful …

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          “Give me the line numbers corresponding to the saudi sheik saying he liked the torture videos”

          Are you trying to be obstinate on purpose?

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            If we are talking about LLMs, the other commenter is entirely right about how they function. But I’m not sure you two are talking about the same technology.

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              Can an LLM provide me the information I want given a search term if trained on the given dataset? Yes. That is all.

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                It can provide you some information that looks similar to what you’d want. Whether it is correct is another question.

                RAG can help to a degree but hallucinations still happen quite a bit.