And even when you do, it may not accurately respond with it. Companies are conflating complicated word-relationship math with “information”, and there’s no means by which these systems can actually verify that something that came out is accurate or not, since language models just don’t work that way. They can straight up point at sources that’re real but make the wrong conclusion because the word relationships lean that way in relation to what was quoted, and no “this new model is better!” can really solve that fundamental flaw with Large Language Models in general, or things that operate like they do.
Watson was groundbreaking because of the way it worked as an information match model, designed not to be generative but merely to match one prompt “concept” with a target scored on relations. It was almost like how LLM scoring works but fundamentally still different, with a TON of hand-training done to get there. And I was just thinking about, the other day, how much I think these companies want people to correlated what Watson was doing on Jeopardy with LLMs.
God, I’ve seen so much of this.
Only reason I’m commenting is the movie thing, cause the “hard to pay attention” is wild to me, even as someone with severe ADHD.
I don’t like going to, or sitting down for, movies most of the time because of dermatillomania (warning on images there) secondary to my ADHD resulting in me usually creating entirely new holes in my fingers/hands absentmindedly while I’m watching. There’s a secondary ADHD “itch” due to the drive for spontenaeity, but I get hooked easily on what I’m watching once I do – it’s more of a “but I could be working on X project or something” thought, but then I’ll sit and watch a 2 hour episode of Dimension 20 with no distractions like it’s nothing.
I just… I don’t get how people could pivot to being so short-attention-spanned they don’t want anything like that. Those of us with ADHD are very used to how short attention spans feel, but they’re almost never that short. What the hell.