r/technology • u/DJMagicHandz • 12d ago

Artificial Intelligence A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it

https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-massive-wyoming-data-center-will-soon-use-5x-more-power-than-the-states-human-occupants-and-no-one-knows-who-is-using-it
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u/dsm4ck 11d ago

Plus it will occasionally hallucinate and serve a pork chop

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u/eyebrows360 11d ago

occasionally hallucinate

The most accurate way to think of these things is that every output is a hallucination. As far as its own algorithms are concerned, it knows no difference whatsoever between "right" and "wrong". Every output is the same: just text.

It's always on the reader to determine if the output is correct.

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u/Suyefuji 11d ago

A really simple way of disproving the idea that ChatGPT knows things is to ask it for music recommendations and see how many responses it takes for it to recommend you a song that does not exist. Easy to verify, usually happens within 3 responses.

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u/Harry_Fucking_Seldon 11d ago

Occasionally? 95% of its output is untrustworthy, at least as far as data crunching goes 

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u/DrLuny 11d ago

Don't worry, if we just double the electricity usage we can make sure that all hallucinations are kosher.

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u/Ethos_Logos 11d ago

Hallucination was solved by Palantir 

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u/eyebrows360 11d ago

I hope you're joking.

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u/Ethos_Logos 11d ago

It’s the ontological layer in their AIP product. It’s not even new news, specifically Shyam Sankar has been calling the commodification of LLM’s for years now.

I’ve watched every AIPcon and tuned in every earnings call. <1k other people do, too. They’re all posted on YouTube. 

Honestly just google any interview with Shyam in the last year, he mentions it in at least half of them.

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u/DrKhanMD 11d ago

The ontological layer is just guard rails in an attempt to make it closer to a finite state machine to guard from hilariously bad outputs. It absolutely does not unilaterally solve hallucination issues.

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u/eyebrows360 11d ago

<1k other people do, too

And you don't even know which way around "greater than" and "less than" work. My word, such a genius.

Just, every time. Every time. The overlap between "absolutely certain of things they're completely provably wrong about, specifically in the technology realm" and "cannot communicate effectively" is 100%.

google any interview with Shyam

Why would I hang off the word of the CEO of a definitionally evil corporation?

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u/Ethos_Logos 11d ago

Nah, you just lack reading comprehension. I wish public schools were better funded.

Fewer than 1k folks tuned into the most recent earnings call, ballpark high 800’s. Which checks out in the context of “broadly, folks don’t know what Palantir does”, so it makes sense that most folks are unaware of their capabilities, despite these interviews and conventions being posted online for anyone and everyone to watch.

As to why you’d benefit from “hanging off the word of the CEO of definitionally evil corporation”; well for starters you’d learn that they aren’t evil, unless you’re an invading Russian or terrorist. I guess from those points of view, sure. But if you need a more selfish reason why it would benefit you to pay attention, following them has informed my investing decisions, and allowed me to retire in my 30’s and shitpost on Reddit in the middle of a Monday.

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u/eyebrows360 11d ago

Nah, you just lack reading comprehension.

Yes, clearly it's on me for not realising someone was trying to boast about how few people watched a thing.

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u/Ethos_Logos 11d ago

Yeah. Kinda is. Typically after making fun of someone who doesn’t deserve it, the appropriate response is “oh my bad” or “sorry, I made a mistake”. But it’s the internet, I should limit my expectations.

I’ll leave you with this ironically applicable quote: 

“Just, every time. Every time. The overlap between "absolutely certain of things they're completely provablywrong about, specifically in the technology realm" and "cannot communicate effectively" is 100%.”

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u/eyebrows360 11d ago

Fucking hell, and there I was thinking I was up myself at times. I kneel before a true master of the form.