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electric_blue68

(25,251 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:16 AM 11 hrs ago

So, I'm reading about AI, LLM hallucinations...

While on IBM's web site it said...
(my underline)

"sometimes AI algorithms produce outputs that are not based on training data, are incorrectly decoded by the transformer".


What the heck does that (underlined section) even mean?

Tia!
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So, I'm reading about AI, LLM hallucinations... (Original Post) electric_blue68 11 hrs ago OP
Translation? Skynet becomes self-aware and decides humanity is an unacceptable risk... Moostache 11 hrs ago #1
Heh... electric_blue68 10 hrs ago #4
Similar plot line to "The Matrix" series too, just different 'terminators'! (LOL) n/t Moostache 7 hrs ago #6
Ah, yeah, you could say that! electric_blue68 6 hrs ago #7
Um...Optimus Prime has trouble understanding what A.I. is trying to communicate? mwmisses4289 11 hrs ago #2
That little plastic toy that changes from a car to a robotic killer? Bobstandard 11 hrs ago #3
Uh, ohhh! electric_blue68 10 hrs ago #5

Moostache

(10,953 posts)
1. Translation? Skynet becomes self-aware and decides humanity is an unacceptable risk...
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:32 AM
11 hrs ago

The rest follows the plot of most sci-fi dystopian fiction beat for beat from there...

Bobstandard

(2,127 posts)
3. That little plastic toy that changes from a car to a robotic killer?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:40 AM
11 hrs ago

The “be a quiet toy” command that it usually gets from the planet of the Jewish space lasers may now be misinterpreted to mean, “kill them all!”

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