Hallucination by proxy in LLM-assisted differential diagnosis

Current evidence suggests that LLM assistance could augment the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians. However, these systems are black boxes, susceptible to hallucinations, and project a potentially...

Hallucination by proxy in LLM-assisted differential diagnosis

Current evidence suggests that LLM assistance could augment the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians. However, these systems are black boxes, susceptible to hallucinations, and project a potentially...

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.

I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.

I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.

Don’t classify. Hallucinate!

A useful pattern for LLM classification at scale is to let it hallucinate plausible, fake entities. Then resolve to real ones.

How LLMs are and are not like the brain

Hi from buttondown! At the bottom of this newsletter is a bit of administrivia about the new platform How LLMs are and are not like the brain Beneath all the...

There's Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs

LLMs aren't trained on the "vast majority of speech," experts warn, a major blind spot that could have sweeping consequences.

Shameless Guesses, Not Hallucinations

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Well-intentioned obscenity

An LLM lied about me at the office and I'm cranky about it. That interaction makes me think a lot about how LLMs are becoming normalized, though, and what we're looking at in terms of their role in human-to-human interactions in the future.

Against False Indulgences in LLM Alignment

Unnecessary moral concern, and the false indulgences that drive it.

Cognitive exponents and LLM leverage

I know a few people for whom LLMs have been a near-immediate multiplier of attention and effort. I know a lot for whom LLMs clearly make them worse at thinking and doing things. So: why?

LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful.

Note: This is a personal essay by Matt Ranger, Kagi's head of ML In 1986, Harry Frankfurt wrote On Bullshit. He differentiates a lying from bullshitting: Lying means you have a concept of what is true,...

LLMs are not like manufacturing machines - Ross Wintle

LLMs are not just machines. They are machine-building machines! This comes with way more responsibility. And understanding it may change how you use them.

Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.

Claude's faulty "known entity" neurons sometimes override its "don't answer" circuitry.