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> There is no self reflection, but if you ask an LLM program how "it" knows something it will produce some text. To be clear, you're saying that we should just
by marshray 3y ago
> There is no self reflection, but if you ask an LLM program how "it" knows something it will produce some text.
To be clear, you're saying that we should just dismiss out-of-hand any possibility that an LM AI might actually be able to explain its reasoning step-by-step?
I find it kind of charming actually how so many humans are just so darn sure that they have their own special kind of cognition that could never be replicated. Not even with 175,000,000,000 calculations for every word generated.
- jmfldn 3y agoThat's a strawman since I didn't argue anything about humans being special. I don't think there is anything necessarily inherently special about human intelligence, I'm just advocating for caution around the language we use to talk about current systems. All this talk of AGI and sentience and so on is premature and totally unfounded . It's pure sci fi, for now at least.
- marshray 3y ago> I didn't argue anything about humans being special Above you said about AI LMs: > There is no "their" and there is no "thought process" So, unless you're claiming that humans lack a thought process as well, then you're arguing that humans are special. > All this talk of AGI and sentience and so on is premature and totally unfounded I don't see any mention of AGI or sentience in this thread? Also, I don't think anyone could read this transcript with GPT-4 and still claim that it's incapable of a significant degree of self-reflection and metacognition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35880148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35880148
- jmfldn 3y agoI reject the words 'self' and 'cognition' in your comment. This is exactly what I'm talking about. A facsimile of them, maybe...