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| From | Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> |
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| Newsgroups | sci.edu, comp.ai.philosophy, alt.books, alt.politics.media, rec.arts.books, misc.writing |
| Subject | Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? |
| Date | 2026-05-18 14:54 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, 18 May 2026 10:46:11 -0400 > Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> wrote: > >> I have never seen an actual definition if what AI *is*. > > That's because when you say "a program that does auto-complete using a > large context window as an index to a *very* large reference dataset, > but it plays dice according to the statistical likelihood of a given > word-chain in the reference data" it starts to sound kinda silly and > unreliable. I'd say that's more the definition of an LLM. The term "AI" *vastly* predates LLMs. -- Regards, Jonathan Lamothe https://jlamothe.net - PGP: 9CF2CE03EBF08E8C8B66C3660198463E3CF3FFD1 I � Unicode
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Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-12 05:58 +0200
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-12 06:34 +0200
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-12 06:44 -0600
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-05-18 10:46 -0400
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 08:04 -0700
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-05-18 14:54 -0400
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 12:05 -0700
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-19 02:33 +0200
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-05-19 12:11 -0400
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-20 05:23 +0200
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 12:09 -0400
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-19 02:31 +0200
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 18:37 -0600
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-20 06:06 +0200
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