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Why do LLMs hallucinate?
A practical look at why LLMs hallucinate, and what you can do about it (spoilers, "more prompts, more training" isn't the answer).
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Computerized Screaming Void of the Collective Human Subconscious (Now a Subscription!)
“We’ve made a computerized screaming void of the collective human subconscious. Would you like to talk to it?” What LLMs become when you take a step back, and why it's actually not that scary in the light.
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What if LLMs Are Something Else Entirely?
When we really look at the technology without preconceptions of AI, LLMs stop looking like "synthetic intelligence" and more like a very weird, very new kind of compute.
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Systems from the Gaps
Why and how I do what I do in all my systems work, at SkillSaige and beyond.