Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day agoI know IPA (the linguistic term, not the beer … OK, I also know the beer, but that’s not important right now) … and, yeah, I tried that, but on a laptop without a numpad, it’s a bit of a slog.
What was maddening was the LLM got it right somewhere around 10% of the time after I corrected it. This was a voice conversation, so every time I corrected it, that should have been clear data. Aren’t these systems simply supposed to be pattern recognition? How is it outputting wildly different pronunciations (N>5) with constant inputs?
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 day ago
The modeld themselves are nondeterministic. Also, they tend to include a hidden (or sometimes visible) random seed that gets input into the models as well.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
How delightful. I mean, I knew there were reasons you don’t get the same results twice, but I’ve not dived into how all this works, as it seems to be complete bullshit. But it’s nice to hear that’s a feature.