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"I keep reading these opinions that LLMs are just doing some advanced form of copy paste. Actually, we don't know what they are doing. Are they actually doing s
by shanebellone 4y ago
"I keep reading these opinions that LLMs are just doing some advanced form of copy paste. Actually, we don't know what they are doing. Are they actually doing some form of modelling and abstraction? Seems likely to me."
This is exactly the problem with AI. For business or government, the answer is as important as the methodology employed. A black box does not work for the majority of use cases.
Until it can show its work, it's a sideshow.
- BurningFrog 4y agoHumans are also "black boxes" we don't fully understand. It's worked pretty well.
- shanebellone 4y agoThis is a shallow counterargument that entirely misses the point.
- BurningFrog 4y agoThis is not even an argument, only a disagreement.
- shanebellone 4y ago"This is not even an argument, only a disagreement." It's a straw man. The need for transparency in process is known, documented, and undisputed. Your comment has no relevance. My brain might be a black box, but I can still communicate and/or document the specifics of a process. Can [insert your preferred model] do that? Didn't think so.
- tracker1 4y agoGiven the changes in health over the past century and a half as we've adopted "science" into food, I'm not sure that I agree.
- auggierose 4y agoYes, in many situations it is important that we get AIs to explain how they came up with a result, and that we are confident in the correctness of the explanation. That is probably the most interesting thing you can work on now. Is that a sideshow? I don't think so, although I wouldn't mind that at all.