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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Do Large Language Models Know What They Don't Know? · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.18153/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.18153/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Do Large Language Models Know What They Don't Know? — mentioned by 317070</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498259</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2305.18153:41498259</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:51:00 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; LLMs don’t know when they are hallucinating What makes you think that? The fact that you can ask them to stop hallucinating and that this does reduce hallucinations seems to me like a strong indication of the opposite? That is what the OP&amp;#x27;s article is about. &amp;gt; They don’t know when they don’t know something. The bigger models tend to be able to articulate some of their limits? See e.g this recent article [0]. &amp;gt; They know facts but they have no reasoning. Is that really true? They can solve many novel tasks that seem to require some level of reasoning. They do not possess the full range of…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.18153/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Do Large Language Models Know What They Don't Know? — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272573</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2305.18153:41272573</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 07:14:42 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Do Large Language Models Know What They Don&amp;#x27;t Know?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.18153/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Do Large Language Models Know What They Don't Know? — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38279671</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2305.18153:38279671</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:39:40 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Do Large Language Models Know What They Don&amp;#x27;t Know?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.18153/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
