Why Models Make Things Up, and What Genuinely Reduces It
Confident invention is a consequence of what these systems are trained to do. It can be reduced substantially and it cannot be eliminated by prompting.
Articles
The AGI Conversation Is Crowding Out Better Questions
Arguing about a hypothetical future system is more comfortable than arguing about the deployed ones. That is largely why it is so popular.
Benchmarks Are Not Progress
A number that improves every quarter is reassuring and largely decorative. Measuring what a system is good at is much harder than ranking it.