Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?
There&#x27;s definitely a few echo chambers around AI, but it&#x27;s definitely not something that &quot;just techies&quot; are onto.<p>ChatGPT made some waves at the end of last year. My in-laws were wanting to talk to (at) me about it at Christmas. There&#x27;s plenty of awareness outside of the tech circles, but most of the discussion (both out and in of the tech world) seems to miss what LLMs actually _are_.<p>The reason why ChatGPT was impressive to me wasn&#x27;t the &quot;realism&quot; of the responses... It was how quickly it could classify and chain inputs&#x2F;outputs. It&#x27;s super impressive tech, but like... It&#x27;s not AI. As accurate as it may ever seem, it&#x27;s simply not actually aware of what it&#x27;s saying. &quot;Hallucinations&quot; is a fun term, but it&#x27;s not hallucinating information, it&#x27;s just guessing at the next token to write because that&#x27;s all it ever does.<p>If it was &quot;intelligent&quot; it would be able to recognise a limitation in its knowledge and _not_ hallucinate information. But it can&#x27;t. Because it doesn&#x27;t know anything. Correct answers are just as hallucinatory as incorrect answers because it&#x27;s the exact same mechanism that produces them - there&#x27;s just better probabilities.