Model Evaluation and Threat Research is an AI research charity that looks into the threat of AI agents! That sounds a bit AI doomsday cult, and they take funding from the AI doomsday cult organisat…
Claude AI does this ALL the time too. It NEEDS to give a solution, it rarely can say “I don’t know” so it will just completely make up a solution that it thinks is right without actually checking to see the solution exists. It will make/dream up programs or libraries that don’t and have never existed OR it will tell you something can do something when it has never been able to do that thing ever.
And that’s just how all these LLMs have been built. they MUST provide a solution so they all lie. they’ve been programmed this way to ensure maximum profits. Github Copilot is a bit better because it’s with me in my code so it’s suggestions, most of the time, actually work because it can see the context and whats around it. Claude is absolute garbage, MS Copilot is about the same caliber if not worse than Claude, and Chatgpt is only good for content writing or bouncing ideas off of.
LLM are just sophisticated text predictions engine. They don’t know anything, so they can’t produce an “I don’t know” because they can always generate a text prediction and they can’t think.
They could be programmed to do some double/triple checking, and return “i dont know” when the checks are negative.
I guess that would compromise the apparence of oracle that their parent companies seem to dissimulately push onto them.
they don’t check. you gotta think in statistics terms.
based on the previously inputed words (tokens actually, but I’ll use words for the sake of simplicity), which is the system prompt + user prompt, the LLM generates a list of the next possible words that makes most sense, then picks one from the top few. How much it goes down the list on lower possible words is based on temperature configuration. Then the next word, and the next, etc, each time looking back.
I haven’t checked on the reasoning models, what that step actually does, but I assume it just expands the user prompt to fill in stuff that thr LLM thinks the user was lazy to input, then works on the final answer.
so basically is like tapping on your phone keyboard next word prediction.
Tool use, reasoning, chain of thought, those are the things that set llm systems apart. While you are correct in the most basic sense, it’s like saying a car is only a platform with wheels, it’s reductive of the capabilities
Claude AI does this ALL the time too. It NEEDS to give a solution, it rarely can say “I don’t know” so it will just completely make up a solution that it thinks is right without actually checking to see the solution exists. It will make/dream up programs or libraries that don’t and have never existed OR it will tell you something can do something when it has never been able to do that thing ever.
And that’s just how all these LLMs have been built. they MUST provide a solution so they all lie. they’ve been programmed this way to ensure maximum profits. Github Copilot is a bit better because it’s with me in my code so it’s suggestions, most of the time, actually work because it can see the context and whats around it. Claude is absolute garbage, MS Copilot is about the same caliber if not worse than Claude, and Chatgpt is only good for content writing or bouncing ideas off of.
LLM are just sophisticated text predictions engine. They don’t know anything, so they can’t produce an “I don’t know” because they can always generate a text prediction and they can’t think.
They could be programmed to do some double/triple checking, and return “i dont know” when the checks are negative. I guess that would compromise the apparence of oracle that their parent companies seem to dissimulately push onto them.
they don’t check. you gotta think in statistics terms.
based on the previously inputed words (tokens actually, but I’ll use words for the sake of simplicity), which is the system prompt + user prompt, the LLM generates a list of the next possible words that makes most sense, then picks one from the top few. How much it goes down the list on lower possible words is based on temperature configuration. Then the next word, and the next, etc, each time looking back.
I haven’t checked on the reasoning models, what that step actually does, but I assume it just expands the user prompt to fill in stuff that thr LLM thinks the user was lazy to input, then works on the final answer.
so basically is like tapping on your phone keyboard next word prediction.
The chatbots are not just LLMs though. They run scripts in which some steps are queries to an LLM.
Tool use, reasoning, chain of thought, those are the things that set llm systems apart. While you are correct in the most basic sense, it’s like saying a car is only a platform with wheels, it’s reductive of the capabilities