I dont need a 5 minute podcast to explain the fact that LLMs are literally selecting the statistically most common answers, because thats literally what an LLM is

Thats like being surprised that the top 5 correct answers on family feud were the most commonly picked answers from the poll.

Dawg… thats literally how it works lol.

If the site is meant to be a mechanism to circumvent policy with no other use case, it will probably get banned.

Thats not “free speech”, and free speech us only a protected right up until it starts to impact other human rights.

People seem to forget that free speech is not the only protected right, and that in most countries its definitely not #1 on the priority list, usually several other rights come before it.

The site will be hosted at “freedom.gov,” the sources said

So… they will just ban that too then, what a waste of time and money lol

You… understand the Cortana on windows is literally named as a reference to Cortana from Halo right? Because Microsoft owns Halo…? They named it from her… So its the same “Cortana” so to say.

Its a fundamental counterpoint to the OPs post, because it wasn’t made feminine as some kind of mental gymnastics misogyny thing, its just a nerdy reference to an already existing character Microsoft had the rights to, its not that deep.

Cortana was female.

I pointed this out in another post but Cortana is also a “higher level” AI in her depiction origins (Halo) which is inherently a counterpoint to the OP’s post anyways…

It counts as an assistant, and its a gender neutral name cuz its a place name, not a person name.

Its name was specifically chosen to be weird and different to avoid the “accidently triggers in common convo” problem that other assistants tend to have

The name was chosen because it was a play on the SRI technology and because it is a girl’s name.

The name was actually chosen because it was originally going to be the name of one of the founder’s soon to be daughter, but then his child ended up being a son so he gave the name to the machine instead as his “second child” effectively…

So it had literally nothing to do with whatever point the poster was trying to make, and everything to do with a sense of paternal love if literally anything, lol… People will find literally fucking anything to mald over, even making shit up to try and make it sound right.

Yeah but also is a heavy counterpoint to the point in the post, because Cortana was already a “higher level of autonomy” AI in her first depiction (Halo games), from the start, and Microsoft named it after the character because Microsoft bought Halo and was just doing a nod to the character… So thats literally an outright counterpoint to whatever mental gymnastics the poster of the post was doing…

Siri is definitely a gender neutral name, Ive literally met more dudes named Siri than gals when out traveling, especially in eastern Europe.

Literally only one AI assistant Im aware of was given a feminine persona out the gate and thats Alexa which is Amazon’s.

Every single other one has been purposefully kept gender neutral.

They intentionally gave Siri a gender neutral name ages ago cuz you can pick what its voice sounds like

Same for gemini, copilot, gpt…

Only 1 out of many agents had a female name, and it wasnt “tech bros” that named it.

And only one tool has been given a male name, Claude

If… you count just the "Booster product"s though, which are largely the only ones that matter for this allegation, it hasnt gone up much at all. They have been printing ~6 booster sets per year for like the past 10 years

They have been adding other stuff like commander packs, digital releases (which have ZERO bearing on stuff), secret lairs, etc

But those are totally separate products that have zero impact on the “core” rotation of cards and value of them tbh

Theyre counting a Secret Lair drop of five cards that are just alt art as the same as an entire new set which is stupid

Canadians are chomping at the bit here to get a reason to go burn down the Whitehouse again.

Once a model is trained, they become functionally opaque. Weights shift… but WHY. What does that vector MEAN. True, but I guess my point is a lot of people ascribe, as you pointed out, way more “spirit” or “humanity” to what an LLM is, whereas in reality its actually a pretty simple lil box. Numbers go in, numbers come out, and all it does is guess what the next number is gonna be. Numbers go BRRRRRRRRR

I think where I fundamentally disagree is that “they do what they say they do” by any definition beyond the simple tautology that everything is what it is.

I guess I was referring to when theres a lot of tools out there that are built to do stuff other than what it outta do.

Like stick a flashlight onto a wrench if you will. Now its not just a wrench, now its a flashlight too.

But an LLM is… pretty much just what it is, though some people now are trying pretty hard to make it be more than that (and not by adding layers overtop, Im talking about training LLMs to be more than LLMs, which I think is a huge waste of time)

I apologize for any confusion.

I meant LLMs are what they say they are in a non literal sense.

Akin to abscribing the same to any other tool.

“I like wrenches cause they are what they say they are, nothing extra to them” in that sort of way.

In the sense the tool is very transparent in function. No weird bells or whistles, its a simple machine that you can see what it does merely by looking at it.

If you knpw how to use docker and claim that agents are only funded by large corps, then you must really be living under a rock and/or dont know how to google.

Theres tonnes of grassroots agentic FOSS platforms available and self hostable models people all over the world have built to run on them.

Your either extremely out of touch or purposefully spreading disinformation if you think MCP backed agentic options are limited only to “bog tech corporations”.

Go… google it? I dunno, theres tonnes of options out there now, you are talking like its still 2024, shit has moved way past beyond that now…

Nothing you linked there contradicts what I said. It expands on it in more specific detail.

LLMs are heuristic statistical token prediction engines.

Hallucinations are a shorthand term for a set of phenomena that arise out of the way the statistical prediction works, where it will string together sentences that are grammatically correct and sound right, but an LLM has no concept of right/wrong, only statistically likely next token given the prior.

That wiki article goes into much more depth on the “why” but it does support my statement.

I dunno what it is with people and linking wiki articles that support the person’s statement and claiming its the opposite.

… learn to read I guess? I dunno lol.

MCP is a fairly basic concept and just a specific type of a web server,

What part of that did you not understand.

We don’t need yet another layer on top that obscures web properties and places them behind chatbots benefiting Big Tech megacorps and nobody else.

If you think MCP servers benefit “Big Tech megacorps and nobody else” then all I can conclude is you are technically behind enough you dont even know how to use docker and therefore your argument is coming from a place of naivety

MCP servers are incredibly simple and easy to self host, and a few self hostable models are competent now at invoking them.

Tonnes of FOSS self hostable software supports wiring it up as well.

Which means anyone can leverage MCP servers to enable LLMs to do whatever you want.

I would compare it to advancements in stuff like Zigbee for IOT devices, its a simple lightweight spec thats small enough you can even put it on an ESP32 with ease.

And if you dont see how there’s a lot of power in that for private self hosted users, then you arent using your imagination enough.

You’ve gotta be living under a rock if you dont think the models themselves have been improving over the last year, lol.

We are bumping into a log scale problem where people arent fully grasping how big of a difference going from an x% error rate to a y% error rate is in actual practice for where it matters.

Hallucinate is the term used for the statistical phenomena that arises from their output.

Yeah thats not what I was saying