Comment on Ask HN: How do you explain LLMs to those *still* unfamiliar?parentComments−sk110012yEverything is hallucinated, some word combinations coincide with reality but that’s a random occurrence.This isn't accurate, these models are trained and tuned to be correct, it's not a random occurrence.−andrei_says_2yHow is correctness guaranteed? The model has no understanding, just a statistical analysis.Or are we speaking of higher probability for correctness?−Davidbrcz2yI was on that side of the argument as well, but it seems that models can have emerging model states of a given situationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382
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This isn't accurate, these models are trained and tuned to be correct, it's not a random occurrence.
How is correctness guaranteed? The model has no understanding, just a statistical analysis.
Or are we speaking of higher probability for correctness?
I was on that side of the argument as well, but it seems that models can have emerging model states of a given situation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382