Category: Large Language Models
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The Knowledge Trap
“A little learning is a dangerous thing” – Alexander Pope The Temptation You have a large body of unstructured text, and a problem to solve. Perhaps you need to summarize the text or identify topics. Perhaps you need to extract the essential information from the text or find authoritative answers to questions. The traditional approach…
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On Genies
What ChatGPT Started On November 30, 2022, OpenAI announced a research preview of its new conversational model, ChatGPT. Over the next 3.5 years, AI became a major topic of public interest, as illustrated by the chart below showing the relative frequency of queries for the term “AI” as reported by Google Trends. What the graph…
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Still Hallucinating?
Can we avoid language model hallucinations with Retrieval-Augmented Generation? The News In a recent blog post, Teresa Kubacka describes some problematic responses to queries she made to a system designed to answer questions based on a large index of abstracts of research papers. Kubecka’s questions were about electromagnons, a phenomenon in condensed matter physics which…