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"'What's happening, Allan? You're changing reality — from your phone.'"
Simply yet another story about someone being bamboozled by LLM/AI hallucinations. The kicker? What finally got him to realize this was when he asked a different LLM/AI, and it told him nah, dawg, you got suckered.
"As fate would have it, Brooks' mania would be broken by another chatbot, Google's Gemini. Per the NYT, Brooks described his findings to Gemini, which gave him a swift dose of reality: 'The scenario you describe is a powerful demonstration of an LLM's ability to engage in complex problem-solving discussions and generate highly convincing, yet ultimately false, narratives.'
"'That moment where I realized, "Oh my God, this has all been in my head," was totally devastating,' Brooks told the paper."
Oh well, at least this time, Gemini didn't tell the guy to "please die."
Anyway, long story short, if a chatbot tells you that you are changing reality though never before discovered math, maybe don't waste three weeks of your life believing it?
Simply yet another story about someone being bamboozled by LLM/AI hallucinations. The kicker? What finally got him to realize this was when he asked a different LLM/AI, and it told him nah, dawg, you got suckered.
"As fate would have it, Brooks' mania would be broken by another chatbot, Google's Gemini. Per the NYT, Brooks described his findings to Gemini, which gave him a swift dose of reality: 'The scenario you describe is a powerful demonstration of an LLM's ability to engage in complex problem-solving discussions and generate highly convincing, yet ultimately false, narratives.'
"'That moment where I realized, "Oh my God, this has all been in my head," was totally devastating,' Brooks told the paper."
Oh well, at least this time, Gemini didn't tell the guy to "please die."
Anyway, long story short, if a chatbot tells you that you are changing reality though never before discovered math, maybe don't waste three weeks of your life believing it?
