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Google's Gemini 2.5 pro is out of beta. (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love to show that kind of shit to AI boosters. (In case you're wondering, the numbers were chosen randomly and the answer is incorrect).

They go waaa waaa its not a calculator, and then I can point out that it got the leading 6 digits and the last digit correct, which is a lot better than it did on the "softer" parts of the test.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

misinterpreted as deliberate lying by ai doomers.

I actually disagree. I think they correctly interpret it as deliberate lying, but they misattribute the intent to the LLM rather than to the company making it (and its employees).

edit: its like you are watching a TV and ads come on you say that a very very flat demon who lives in the TV is lying, because the bargain with the demon is that you get to watch entertaining content in response to having to listen to its lies. It's fundamentally correct about lying, just not about the very flat demon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

New version of Descartes: imagine that an LLM no less hallucination-prone than unaligned, is feeding it's output directly into your perceptions...

Non cogitat, ergo non est