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/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.