Hallucinations Are Inevitable but Can Be Made Statistically Negligible
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A new paper on arXiv argues that hallucinations in large language models are inevitable but can be made statistically negligible, sparking discussion on the implications and limitations of this finding.
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And AI will be trained on the dataset used to prove it is negligible...
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