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At some point though, the difference between the model and reality fall within a negligible error margin - particularly within a practical everyday context. Lik
by taberiand 4y ago
At some point though, the difference between the model and reality fall within a negligible error margin - particularly within a practical everyday context. Like, Newton's theory of gravity isn't perfect, but for most things it's pretty much good enough.
Similarly if LLMs can be used to model human intelligence, and predict and manipulate human behaviour, it'll be good enough for corporations to exploit.
- precompute 4y agoI think brain == LLM is only approaching true in the clean, "rational" world of the academia. The internet now amplifies this. IMHO it is not possible to make something perfectly similar to our own image in a culture that has taken to feeding upon itself. This sort of culture makes extracting value from it much, much more difficult. I think we map the model of our understanding of how we understand things to these "AI" programs. Doesn't count for much. We have so much more than our five senses, and I fully believe that we were made by God. We might come close to something that fulfills a great number of conditions for "life" but it will never be truly alive.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoYour prediction is that we are close. That prediction is founded on your assertion that we aren't missing anything substantive or new in that error margin: and that assertion is circular. If you are correct about LLMs being a generally complete model, then that is a good prediction. But only if you are correct.