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The better models get, the more conversation is to be had about them. The problem is that nearly every single narrative has already personified LLMs. What else
by thomastjeffery 4y ago
The better models get, the more conversation is to be had about them.
The problem is that nearly every single narrative has already personified LLMs. What else can a person do but continue following the narratives that were presented to them?
> It seems the ability to do language
You highlighted the key word: "do". Every person is capable of "do". That's a significant part of what we are. An LLM has no concept of "do". An LLM only models.
- kelseyfrog 4y ago> Every person is capable of "do". That's a significant part of what we are. Right, and what is/are the constitutive element(s) of doing? What is the ontologogy of "do-ing" and is it an essential characteristic of personhood? Secondly, how do we acquire this ontological framework? What are its origin, and how has it changed throughout history or has it been static throughout the human experience?
- thomastjeffery 4y agoOntology is constructive. Ontology is explicit. These qualities represent an approach for language understanding that is the inverse of inference, which is the approach LLMs take. Somehow, humans manage to do both: we remember the narratives we have heard or experienced, and we hallucinate new ones. We seem to navigate that dataset in an implicit way, but we construct speech and writing in an explicit way.