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Ok, you have a moderately complex math problem you needed to solve. You gave the problem to 6 LLMS all paid versions. All 6 get the same numbers. Would you trust the answer?

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

That wasn’t the question. The question was whether you should trust the number and the answer is no. It could be correct or it could be incorrect. There’s not enough data to determine it.

LLMs work as predictive models. If you ask 10 people to estimate the height of a tree, and 8/10 estimate that it’s 10 ft tall, 2/10 estimate that it’s 8 ft tall, the most likely LLM answer is that it’s 10 ft tall. It doesn’t matter that if you actually go and measure the tree that it’s actually 15 ft tall. The LLM will likely report 8