> I've started to think of LLM's as a form lossy compression of available knowledge which when prompted produces "facts".
That is almost exactly what they are and what you should treat them as.
A lossy compressed corpus of publicly available information with a weight of randomness. The most fervent skeptics like to call LLMs "autocorrect on steroids" and they are not really wrong.
That is almost exactly what they are and what you should treat them as.
A lossy compressed corpus of publicly available information with a weight of randomness. The most fervent skeptics like to call LLMs "autocorrect on steroids" and they are not really wrong.