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Do you host your own ML / AI / LLM? What do you use, and what do you use it for?

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[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's tricky. It's kind of like adding LLMs like vectors, and hopefully the effect can soften or at least reveal the shortcomings of individual models. Is it a good idea? I don't know, I think there are good reasons to think it's a waste of time and resources. I certainly think I'd need a better explanation of what use it would be before I spent more time building it. But I still think about what use it would be from time to time; I haven't decided that it's a bad idea yet.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

at least reveal the shortcomings of individual models. Is it a good idea? I don’t know,

I mean I do it, in my rudimentary way, to check for some semblance of consistency. I'm unclear why you think that not a good idea?

P.S. This is a hypothesis, I haven't even designed the test for it, much less run it. What follow are my suppositions.

I think whether or not it's a good idea depends on how similar all the models are. I don't have a rigorous definition of "similar" but things like similar training data, similar design methodologies, similar QA processes would all contribute. Theoretically (I think), if they're all dissimilar, they should each catch errors the others miss. However, the more similar they are, the more likely they have the same biases and weak spots, and your error rate from a response + verification may be the same or even higher than the error rate for just the original prompt, and you'd be unlikely to detect those errors using just two similar models. It can instill false confidence in the results because you're doing something that should in theory increase the validity of the data, but in practice might make no difference or even make the quality of responses worse.