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My point isn’t that LLMs are anything more than pattern predictors; it’s that calling them such as some sort of dismissal doesn’t really strike me as the “gotch
by maxdoop 4y ago
My point isn’t that LLMs are anything more than pattern predictors; it’s that calling them such as some sort of dismissal doesn’t really strike me as the “gotcha” it initially seems.
We don’t know that humans themselves aren’t just prediction machines. Yet , humans are insanely capable! And thus the same might apply to an LLM.
It’s hard to strike a balance between having excited, rational, discussion and not coming across like a religious AI nut.
- barrysteve 4y agoOohh it always struck me as the comparison to humans was to marginalize humans. I'm often on the reductive "gotcha" side and it is always a rummaging around to find and understand the essence of the thing in front of me causing all this news and hype. Peel open the black box and see it's basic shape, as much as one can from the outside.. Thank you for the insight, I genuinely have been annoyed at people who are "dragging down The Human Consciousness to the level of basic boolean logic", when they compare computing to humans and I never got the other side of it.