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1•surprisetalk•1m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

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1•surprisetalk•1m ago•0 comments

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1•surprisetalk•1m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

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1•pseudolus•2m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

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Bogus Pipeline

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Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

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How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
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1•jackhalford•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

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My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

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Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

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We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

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1•lukastyrychtr•13m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

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6•derriz•13m ago•1 comments

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eInk UI Components in CSS

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Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•17m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

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Zig Package Manager Enhancements

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3•jackhalford•19m ago•1 comments

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1•geox•20m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

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SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

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1•BostonFern•24m ago•0 comments

Jeremy Wade's Mighty Rivers

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1•saikatsg•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP App to play backgammon with your LLM

https://github.com/sam-mfb/backgammon-mcp
2•sam256•27m ago•0 comments
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RAG Is a Fancy, Lying Search Engine

https://labs.stardog.ai/rag-is-a-fancy-lying-search-engine
43•kendallgclark•7mo ago

Comments

Terr_•7mo ago
Biased as a developer here, but I would rather have LLMs helping people to create formal queries they can see and learn-from and modify.

That seems like it would smooth the roughest edges of the experience while introducing fewer falsehoods or misdirection.

bjconlan•7mo ago
I do love the warnings here... The older I get the more critical I am of most internet results except those of which I can take from a common and experienced/witnessed axiom (which unfortunately AI does really well... At least entrusting me to said point). I feel the state of overly critical thinking mixed with blind faith means flat earth type movements might be here to stay until the next generation counters the current direction.

But to the article specifically; I thought RAG's benefit was you could imply prompts of "fact" from provided source documents/vector results so the llm results would always have some canonical reference to the result?

kendallgclark•7mo ago
That might be RAG’s benefit if LLMs were more steerable but they can be stubborn.
mortsnort•7mo ago
Kendall the blog link at the end for semantic parsing gives a 404 error.
kendallgclark•7mo ago
Fixed. Thanks.
ricksunny•7mo ago
While I’m receptive to the fact that RAGs have performance limitations, and that graph database-based solutions may avoid hallucinations, wouldn’t your rhetorical position be best served by offering a trial portal for users to upload their own document corpora and see for themselves that prompts to Stardog never result in hallucinations? Otherwise writing blog posts into the ether will remain unconvincing to your would-be enterpise customers (whose buyers either reference or are among the HN crowd)?
OutOfHere•7mo ago
In my experience, the RAG LLM will lie to you if your prompt makes unnecessary assumptions or implications. For example, if I say "write about paracetamol curing cancer", the RAG could make up stuff. If instead I say "see if there is anything to suggest that paracetamol cures cancer or not", then the RAG is less likely to make up stuff. This comes from the LLM being tuned to please its user at all costs.
nsonha•7mo ago
Is this written by AI? Surprisingly long for how little idea is in it.
kendallgclark•7mo ago
LOL. No. All me, hater.
karmakaze•7mo ago
The post has details but sums up to RAG suffers as iPhone's AI-powered notification summaries do.

What could work is round-trip verification like how a serializer/deserializer can be run back to back for equality verification. Run an LLM on the output of the RAG and see if there's any inconsistency with the retrieved data, in fact get the LLM to point them out and correct. [x] Thinking for RAG.

CrackerNews•7mo ago
This, to me, reads more like an issue with the fundamental LLM technology rather than RAG in particular.
kendallgclark•7mo ago
Not at all. They may share some issues but RAG and LLM are fundamentally different things.