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An LLM would have generated four pages on this topic in order to increase the token count!

LLMs are advertised for serious applications. I don't recall that CPUs generally hallucinate except for the FDIV bug. Or that AirBnB rents you apartments that don't exist in 30% of all cases. Or that Uber cars drive into a river during 20% of all rides.



Are we talking about economics, or about hallucinations?

"CPUs don't hallucinate" would be a reasonable argument if CPUs were an alternative to LLMs, which they aren't, so I'm not really sure what argument you're making there.

Seems like you're saying "a calculator makes fewer mistakes than an accountant", which is true, but I still pay an accountant to do my taxes, and not a calculator.


I was obviously responding to your "SV companies have been doing that forever". You have introduced the general topic.


I don't see how CPU bugs have anything to do with subsidizing a product to capture market share, can you elaborate?


Certainly!

Thinking ...

- The user is asking about the connection between CPU bugs and price dumping in order to capture market share.

- The user appears to miss the original thread starter that mentions cutting corners in models after the subsidy phase is over.

- The mention of CPUs, AirBnB and Uber appear to be examples where certain quality standards were usually kept even after the subsidy phase.

Generating response ...


if you don't want hallucinations:

- set temp to 0

- be more specific

But I'd argue that if your LLM isn't hallucinating, then it's useless


How would setting temp to 0 preclude hallucinations?


It wouldn’t




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