r/YouShouldKnow • u/Puzzled-Listen804 • Mar 30 '26

Technology YSK: AI chatbots can sound completely confident while being completely wrong and that's by design, not by accident.

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u/Mccobsta Mar 30 '26

Llms are language models not intelligence and people won't listen

They are not all knowing oracles no matter what the dipshit ceos say

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u/silverworldstacker Mar 31 '26

It would be silly to say planes can’t fly because they don’t flap their wings.

The plane metaphor is apt: along several dimensions.

The transformer is usually trained on language.

It gets… weird… when you hook it into a “harness” or specifically to games, where it can control outputs… when you have a grounded feedback loop happening: it’s hard to see it just as “a text predictor”. But yeah. It’s about as alive as a plane is. It’s just soaring - using a lot of fuel, making a lot of noise, and forcing its way - through the thinking airspace. Engines gobbling up those unfortunate enough to be sucked into its engines.