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"We don't know" in this case means "It's hard to trace the particular model parameters resulting in any particular result". When scientists say "We don't know"
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
"We don't know" in this case means "It's hard to trace the particular model parameters resulting in any particular result".
When scientists say "We don't know" they mean "It would take more time than I care to spend, to investigate the particulars to answer that question." The public jumps straight to "It's magic, Jesus or aliens!"
It's a parrot. That's not in question.
- jp10558 4y agoYou'd have to bite the bullet that most human posters are also parrots by that definition I think. It's certainly taking input from what others have said, and it's not coming up with new ideas. But it's answering many questions same as human posters online would, by combining stuff they heard elsewhere into a coherent text post. Given that the output essentially is similar to what human posters online are doing in many many cases the term isn't useful to distinguish between the two. It's certainly not working like Eliza where there are specific programmed response trees to choose from. It doesn't seem to be just copying sentences and pasting them into the output.
- maxdoop 4y agoI will echo what the other reply to your comment said about "humans must also be parrots, then"; But also, I'm not so sure scientists "don't have the time" but rather, "literally cannot" know with regard to an LLM's "insides".