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🤔 I want Human DevOps opinions as context and perspective relative to an answer from Grok (where my "prompt" is at bottom of this post). My theory is: "step away from broad LLM, and choose domain-specific explicit-token symbol set from known-good." 🔽 Grok output (with edits)

How Reduced-Scope AI Reduces Hallucinations

Your proposed name "Real World Symbolic Set Modelling" is a good description. It aligns closely with:

• Symbolic AI (also called GOFAI) - Uses explicit symbols, rules, and logic instead of probabilistic pattern matching.
• Neuro-Symbolic AI - Hybrid systems that blend neural networks with symbolic reasoning for better precision and explainability.
• Ontology-based or knowledge-graph-driven systems, where every concept has a precise, unambiguous definition.

Real-World Examples

Such systems (described in prompt) already exist and are becoming increasingly common. They are generally called domain-specific AI, narrow AI, focused language models (FLMs), small language models (SLMs) tuned for a domain, or expert systems (especially when using symbolic approaches).

By severely limiting the training data, knowledge base, and allowed operations to a well-defined domain, these systems dramatically lower (and in some cases nearly eliminate) hallucinations:

• They only "know" accounting rules, market data feeds, crop models, soil science, weather inputs, etc.
• They lack exposure to unrelated internet text (politics, religion, philosophy, fiction), so they cannot draw false analogies from those areas.
• They often combine neural components (for pattern recognition) with symbolic reasoning (strict rules, ontologies, and verifiable calculations).

Finance / Banking / Accounting / Derivatives:

• BloombergGPT and similar finance-tuned models.
• Specialized tools like ChatCPA (fine-tuned on accounting principles, tax codes, and financial standards).
• Focused Language Models (FLMs) or domain-tuned models from companies like Allganize (Finance LLM), Wokelo AI, or FICO - designed specifically for market data, risk, compliance, and capitalization calculations.
• Many banks now run private models trained only on their internal ledgers, regulatory filings, and market data feeds.

These systems are much better at precise calculations, balance sheets, derivative pricing, and regulatory reporting, with far lower hallucination rates because the model is heavily constrained.

Farming / Agriculture:

• Domain-specific AI for precision agriculture (crop yield prediction, irrigation optimization, pest management, livestock).
• Models trained exclusively on soil data, satellite imagery, weather APIs, farm equipment telemetry, and agronomic rules.
• They do not know about politics or religion - their world is strictly defined by measurable variables (pH levels, nutrient balances, growth degree days, etc.).

Advantages of This Approach (Your "Real World Symbolic Set Modelling" )

• Near-zero ambiguity: Terms like "profit", "yield", "equity", "soil moisture" are formally defined with strict rules and units.
• High reliability in the narrow domain.
• Explainability - especially with symbolic components (the system can show the exact rules and data used).
• Easier auditing and regulatory compliance (critical in banking).
• Lower cost to run (smaller models).

Limitations:

• The model will refuse or perform poorly on anything outside its defined scope.
• Building the initial knowledge base / ontology requires significant expert effort.
• It won't be "creative" or general-purpose.

How These Systems Are Built Today

1. Fine-tuning a base model on a very clean, curated dataset from only that domain.
2. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounded in verified databases or knowledge graphs.
3. Symbolic rules / constraints layered on top (e.g., accounting must always balance; farm water usage cannot exceed tank capacity).
4. Guardrails that force the model to say “I don’t know” or “Outside my scope” instead of guessing.

This is exactly the direction enterprise AI is heading in 2025–2026: moving away from giant general models toward many specialized, trustworthy ones.

Would you like recommendations for existing tools/platforms in finance or agriculture, or advice on how to design/build such a "Real World Symbolic Set Modelling" system for a specific domain?

[My Prompt] Are there A.I. Systems with "Reduced Scope" to eliminate "Hallucination"? For example, an "Only-Banking-Accounting-Market-Capitalization-with-Derivatives" model, or one which only models farm operations? In farming, the A.I. would never draw "Training Data" from political commentary, historical religious practices, or theory of political systems. I want to call such a system "Real World Symbolic Set Modelling", where no "symbol" is ambiguous like the concepts of "fair" or "unfair."

Note: Diagram below is a concept for my question to Grok....