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It’s worse: they look at what they anthropomorphically think it’s doing. Like looking at an animal picture classifier work and thinking it can see animals, or a
by wrs 4y ago
It’s worse: they look at what they anthropomorphically think it’s doing. Like looking at an animal picture classifier work and thinking it can see animals, or a watching a self-driving car and thinking it has some kind of simulation of a human driver in it.
I think the “AI purists” need to make a lot more noise about the fact that nobody knows what LLMs are doing.
- daniel_reetz 4y agoThere's a term for this anthropomorphic error in the neurosciences/psychology - a homonculus. Like your theory implies there's a little man in there doing the work. (homonculus also has other meanings in neuro, including cortical mappings, just sayin)