Tag: hallucination
Quantization and truthfulness
2026-01-05 quantization basics hallucination logic text Quantization is rounding off, an important class of techniques for saving space and computation in the use of machine learning models. As well as reviewing the general topic of quantization and floating-point numbers, I discuss experiments on the question of how quantization affects truthfulness, the factual accuracy of answers returned by quantized language models. Access: $ Basic
What's a Model?
2025-09-01 alignment basics theory text Gemma hallucination What do we actually mean when we talk about a "model"? Where do they come from? How much do they cost? What are prompts, loss functions, and fine-tuning? This extra-long introductory talk covers some of the basic concepts in the AI landscape, with a special focus on chatbots. Access: Public
Generate and read: Oh no they didn't
2025-05-21 prompting text GPT RAG hallucination What if instead of looking up facts in Wikipedia, you just used a language model to generate fake Wikipedia articles? Access: Public