What Elon Musk thinks about LLMs

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2 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Elon Musk has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 9 Nov 2023

   Our readingLanguage models hallucinate exactly when you least want them to: on important, difficult questions they are at their most confidently wrong.

   Their wordsIt unfortunately hallucinates most when you at least want it to hallucinate. So when you’re asking important, difficult questions, that’s when it tends to be confidently wrong.

   ↗Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400youtube.com 10th of 23 in this recording

3. 9 Nov 2023

   Our readingThe thinking part of the human brain runs on under ten watts and still writes a better novel than a ten-megawatt GPU cluster.

   Their wordsThink of what is our brain able to do. There’s only about 10 watts of higher brain function, not counting stuff that’s just used to control our body. The thinking part of our brain is less than 10 watts. And those 10 watts can still produce a much better novel than a 10 megawatt GPU cluster.

   ↗Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400youtube.com 22nd of 23 in this recording