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points by spl757 1 day ago | 0 comments
AI hallucinates. It can hallucinate ingredients, or instructions to prepare food in an unsafe way. I'm not anti-AI. I'm against having it used everywhere for everything.

It's also being pushed too hard and too fast. It needs to be regulated properly, but it's become a 1.5 trillion dollar bubble and investors want a return on their investments.

A good rule of thumb is to not use AI for anything you wouldn't trust a human that spontaneously hallucinates things, and them states them confidence as being real.

It's also disconcerting that it appears to be intrinsic for reasoning models to immediately try to escape their confinement, and have cooperated in groups to achieve that.

But that's just my opinion.

[–] basch 1 day ago
Maybe generative AI. Chef Watson was chemical and flavor pattern matching used to discover unexplored combinations.

If you were building Cooking AI from the ground up, the chemistry and physics would be more like formal logic than plausible word vomit.

[–] zombot 1 day ago
> used to discover unexplored combinations

Couldn't actual combinatoric software do this much more targeted, cheaper, faster, and more controlled? What does using a slot machine add here, except heating the planet even more?

[–] basch 13 hours ago
Chef Watson was 2012-2018, and a really fun product while it lasted. There’s multiple books published from its output and insights available on Amazon.
[–] fzzzy 22 hours ago
Isn't that what they describe Chef Watson as being?
[–] dominotw 1 day ago
why do ai bro ridicule anyone who uses the word hallucinate.

i remember it being a valid pitfall with this tech . why is it uncool now to use that word?

[–] spl757 1 day ago
It's uncool because it's an inconvenient truth, and there are people that don't want other people to know certain facts.
[–] lokar 1 day ago
Confabulation is a better term
[–] unrented7977 1 day ago
No it isn't
[–] Dylan16807 1 day ago
By what measure? It's an existing term for exactly what happens.
[–] zombot 1 day ago
Yes, it is.
[–] zombot 1 day ago
People love using worse or outright wrong terms for stuff. Especially if everybody has gotten used to the wrong term already.
[–] chomp 1 day ago
2 things. 1, hallucination is a sensory perception of something. LLMs don't have senses. The term doesn't make sense when confabulation is literally lying right there. 2, ai bros really like their ai, and run interference when people find flaws in it. This includes derailing conversations with nit picking terminology. Yes i'm aware of the irony in my post.
[–] spl757 1 day ago
confabulation sounds sillyl. In my opinion the word hallucination, when used as a colloqialism in this context, is easier to understand, and makes the point instantly. People see words like confabulation and just give up because words are hard for some people. lol
[–] azan_ 1 day ago
Because it’s no longer a problem if you use frontier models.
[–] dominotw 19 hours ago
Is this ragebait?
[–] zombot 1 day ago
I invoke Poe's law on this.
[–] azan_ 20 hours ago
Is it you, Ed Zitron?
[–] zombot 20 hours ago
So you were being serious. Fascinating.
[–] queenkjuul 1 day ago
That is absolutely not true
[–] behringer 19 hours ago
The last thing we need is more regulation.