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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The prevalence of hallucination in LLMs is a design choice. It is a result of raising the 'temperature' which is just fancy speak for randomization so it doesn't spit out the same text for the same question over and over to make it look like it has nuance and whatever.

If it was consistent they would be able to reduce incorrect results, but they want it to look like a human response.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you provide sources to “they want it to look like a human response?”

I have not read about that before.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 0 points 4 months ago

The whole idea of LLMs is to replicate human language, as in have LLM output replicate language spoken by humans.

Here's something about improving it: Enhancing Human-Like Responses in Large Language Models

Here's a big thing about temperature: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/llm-temperature