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What a thing is and what it can do are two different things. I can just as easily say CPUs are just fancy rocks.
by newswasboring 4y ago
What a thing is and what it can do are two different things. I can just as easily say CPUs are just fancy rocks.
- Aperocky 4y agoWhat a thing is defines the limit of what it can do. Right now we know what it is, but people are arguing that it has capability arguably beyond the limit. It's akin to arguing that humans can survive without oxygen, and then coming up with some alternative definition of oxygen, or surviving to validate the statement.
- newswasboring 4y agoYes but your line of reasoning shuts down any discussions of what it is because you have tied it to it's manufacturing process. Because it is trained as a word predictor doesn't mean it's all it is. During manufacturing we don't look at CPUs as processing units we just look at it as hunks of rocks we are carving.
- Aperocky 4y agoCPU are fairly predictable in its capabilities. LLMs are not too different in that regard, but harder to quantify, or maybe due to it being very new.
- newswasboring 4y agoMy point isn't about what it is, it's about having the right kind of discussions. I'm seeing people falling into camps and it's way to early for that. My objection isn't that you are wrong, my objection is to the amount of certainty in your original post.