Technology

Listen, we just have to boil the ocean five more times.

Then it will hallucinate slightly less.

Or more. There’s no way to be sure since it’s probabilistic.

"This is the technology worth trillions of dollars"

You can make anything fly high in the sky with enough helium, just not for long.

(Welcome to the present day Tech Stock Market)

Hey look the markov chain showed its biggest weakness (the markov chain)!

In the training data, it could be assumed by output that Connecticut usually follows Colorado in lists of two or more states containing Colorado. There is no other reason for this to occur as far as I know.

Markov Chain based LLMs (I think thats all of them?) are dice-roll systems constrained to probability maps.

Edit: just to add because I don't want anyone crawling up my butt about the oversimplification. Yes. I know. That's not how they work. But when simplified to words so simple a child could understand them, its pretty close.

Yesterday i asked Claude Sonnet what was on my calendar (since they just sent a pop up announcing that feature)

It listed my work meetings on Sunday, so I tried to correct it…

You’re absolutely right - I made an error! September 15th is a Sunday, not a weekend day as I implied. Let me correct that: This Week’s Remaining Schedule: Sunday, September 15

Just today when I asked what’s on my calendar it gave me today and my meetings on the next two thursdays. Not the meetings in between, just thursdays.

Something is off in AI land.

Edit: I asked again: gave me meetings for Thursday’s again. Plus it might think I’m driving in F1

You joke, but I bet you didn't know that Connecticut contained a "d"

I wonder what other words contain letters we don't know about.

ChatGPT is just as stupid.

We're turfing out students by the tens on academic misconduct. They are handing in papers with references that clearly state "generated by Chat GPT". Lazy idiots.

The letters that make up words is a common blind spot for AIs, since they are trained on strings of tokens (roughly words) they don't have a good concept of which letters are inside those words or what order they are in.

Well, it's almost correct. It's just one letter off. Maybe if we invest millions more it will be right next time.

Or maybe it is just not accurate and never will be....I will not every fully trust AI. I'm sure there are use cases for it, I just don't have any.

Connedicut.

No, this is Google throwing the cheapest possible shit at you that is barely capable of stringing together 5 coherent sentences and has the reasoning capability of a tapeworm.

Here is the output of the minimalist open Chinese model Qwen3, that runs locally on my 6 year old mid-end PC:

The US states that contain the letter "d" (case-insensitive, as state names are typically capitalized) are as follows. I've verified each state name for the presence of the letter "d" in its standard spelling:

    Colorado (contains "d" in "Colorado")  
    Delaware (starts with "D")  
    Florida (contains "d" in "Florida")  
    Idaho (contains "d" in "Idaho")  
    Indiana (contains "d" in "Indiana")  
    Maryland (ends with "d" in "Maryland")  
    Nevada (contains "d" in "Nevada")  
    North Dakota (contains "d" in "Dakota")  
    Rhode Island (contains "d" in "Rhode")  
    South Dakota (contains "d" in "Dakota")  


Total: 10 states.

I get the sentiment behind this post, and it's almost always funny when LLM are such dumbass. But this is not a good argument against the technology. It is akin to climate change denier using the argument: "look! It snowed today, climate change is so dumb huh ?"