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it is entirely about feeding it all the code in the world it doesn't understand anything, it doesn't make deductions it's a probability model, and I understan
by blibble 4y ago
it is entirely about feeding it all the code in the world
it doesn't understand anything, it doesn't make deductions
it's a probability model, and I understand how it's implemented perfectly well, thank you
- famouswaffles 4y agoNo you obviously don't lol
- travisjungroth 4y agoEven view it as a simple probability model, you don’t need a million Python repos. The massive amount of English text + 1,000 repos + your codebase is very powerful. You can see this because you can make up a language, give it some examples and it’s surprisingly good.
- zarzavat 4y agoDoes a chess engine “understand” the position? If you define “understanding” as the ability to think like a human then Stockfish is obviously much worse at that. If you define understanding as the ability to choose the correct move, then Stockfish understands the position much better than any human. The point being, you can choose to laden the word “understand” with the meaning of human-like thinking, in which case humans will always be superior by definition. Or you can choose a “many ways to Rome” definition of understanding that is purely focused on results. Large language models understand language in their own way. Currently their results are inferior to humans’ but one day the results may be superior.