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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The tools now exist to review every action and communication made by every citizen of every country without human intervention, and to sort those actions based on specific parameters set by a single person. Who will be the first one to set these parameters, and what will they be?

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[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

Don't get LLMs confused with specialized ML algorithms. Hallucination is an LLM problem, algorithms like gait recognition have been honing in accuracy since way before LLMs started development. Where LLMs come into the picture is that they can act as agents, processing queries and then selecting the best fit specialized algorithm to process the data and then cross reference results from different queries to compile a correlated multidomain dataset. Done properly, this will yield not just a single answer but a list of potential answers with their relative degree of certainty.

Look at the Harvard facial recognition glasses as a proof of concept of this kind of approach: https://specialconcentrations.fas.harvard.edu/news/heres-looking-you