Many people are obsessing over the "discovery" that if you ask an AI to "pick a random number" it will most likely choos...

Many people are obsessing over the "discovery" that if you ask an AI to "pick a random number" it will most likely choose "7". Folks, this is meaningless trivia. Large Language Models are NOT random number generators. They're probabilistic-based predictors. They're going to tell you "7" because that's the most popular choice by humans. If you want a random number, use a random number generator.To put it another way, you can roughly gauge the limit of a person's understanding of what Large Language Models (and "AI" in general) are and what they are designed to use by the number of shiny immaterial trivia that fascinate them (like "query fan-outs"). You CANNOT assess an LLM's ability to think, reason, create, understand, or otherwise perform some random act of intelligent behavior by asking it to pick a number between 1 and 10.#ai #artificialintelligence #trivia #numbertheory #largelanguagemodels #llms