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>ventriloquist trick I don't understand your analogy here. It really is the machine talking; there is no human hiding behind the curtain.
by falcor84 5y ago
>ventriloquist trick
I don't understand your analogy here. It really is the machine talking; there is no human hiding behind the curtain.
- runarberg 5y agoI guess there is a bunch of data hiding behind the curtains, and there is human feeding the data to the model. However I don’t agree with GP here as a ventriloquist’s dummy is not doing anything a human can’t. A well trained language model can produce an output in seconds what it takes human weeks to.
- sanxiyn 5y agoI think better analogy is parrot speaking English. Certainly no ventriloquism there.
- visarga 5y agoThis metaphor doesn't do justice to parrots or language models. Parrots only speak a phrase or two. LMs can write full essays. On the other hand parrots can act in the environment, LMs are isolated from the world and society. So a parrot has a chance to test its ideas out, but LMs don't.