[bytefactory]

I think about this very often. It's also so strange that these proto-AIs feel so organic and flawed in their operation. I've always thought that computers would be perfect, but limited in their increasing capabilities, it's so weird to see them have such flaws as "hallucinations" or "confabulations".

[pseudosavant]

Computers only perfectly* execute their instructions but how those instructions are provided can have errors. Whether we are talking about a garden variety coding bug, or the fact that LLMs are learning their capabilities from the output of (very flawed) humans.

*in theory - not addressing things like bit flips, etc.

[geraneum]

Sometimes (more often than people realize) computers roll a die and proceed accordingly.