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Because LLMs are something humans created to generate text based on existing human language. You’re using a metaphor and mistaking it for the real thing. People
by goatlover 4y ago
Because LLMs are something humans created to generate text based on existing human language. You’re using a metaphor and mistaking it for the real thing. People have done this before with technology, because we don’t have a good understanding of how the brain works.
- xyzelement 4y agoI don't think the person you are responding to is stretching a metaphor. He's pointing out human behavior that might just as well have been produced by an LLM. I think that's a correct observation.
- goatlover 4y agoHumans have bodies that interact with the world. We have to concern ourselves with things like survival, relationships, and what not. An LLM is just a tool for generating human-like text. It's not biological, and doesn't have any drives. It's not trying to hookup, obtain food, or climb the social ladder.
- xyzelement 4y agoI think you are just saying 'humans aren't machines running LLM' and nobody is arguing with you. There's a subtler thing being pointed to here.
- goatlover 4y agoI'm saying humans don't produce language the same way LLMs do, because we have biological and social factors that result in the langue we use. Which is a bit more than predicting the next word based on a statistical model, even if that model does a good job at generating text that looks human-like. So yes, LLMs incorporate a lot of the structure of human language. No, that's not quite the same thing as humans producing language.