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> It can and does reason If ever there was a citation needed... It has probabilistic wording sequences that incidentally share characteristics with Bayesian r

> It can and does reason If ever there was a citation needed... It has probabilistic wording sequences that incidentally share characteristics with Bayesian reasoning: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x7kL42bnATuaL4hrD/bayesian-reasoning-explained-like-you-re-five https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x7kL42bnATuaL4hrD/bayesian-r... But are not reasoning, just probabilistic luck of the draw. You can indeed adjust the priors by rewriting your prompt, here for instance adding context when a student saying the dog ate her homework did produce a chewed up paper, but it's you doing the reasoning and rewriting the prompt. > when it seems to gain the ability "Seems" is correct. It's a parlor trick, like horoscopes and cold reading, with intelligence in the interlocutor.

astrange 4y ago
There’s no sensible reason in this life to read a lesswrong post, c‘mon. That’s not a reasoning system, it’s an online religion based on worshipping Bayes’ theorem. https://metarationality.com/bayesianism-updating https://metarationality.com/bayesianism-updating The “probabilistic” is part of the fixed-function evaluation of the model though. That’s something we humans added; if it makes it not work, just don’t do that.
- galaxyLogic 4y ago
  Nice link, I wasn't aware of Bayenism. As to why people worship neural networks "AI" I think they like it because they are lonely. It gives them hope that there could be a machine they could talk to and the machine would understand and offer comfort and advice. I think it will, to many people, if they juts believe in it. A bit like placebo which works as well. Cargo cult, religion. "AI" will be our savior they think.