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An LLM has a very deep and broad model of textual language as used by humans. It allows for a prompt of a sequence of text to be completed in a manner that can
by williamcotton 3y ago
An LLM has a very deep and broad model of textual language as used by humans. It allows for a prompt of a sequence of text to be completed in a manner that can translate one human language into another, even formal languages like programming languages.
It is inconsequential whether or not we consider this understanding or reasoning to the point where such a conversation seems useless. It is a categorical error to attribute cheating to such a process.
Just ask if such a tool is useful and then choose to learn how the tool could work to your advantage.
- mecsred 3y agoPro tip: anyone this argument would work on is currently learning about and tinkering with the tech. The people stuck in the intelligence speculation are tautologically the people you can't stop speculating.
- williamcotton 3y agoWhat if I hit them in the head with a copy of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations until they stop?
- enragedcacti 3y ago> Just ask if such a tool is useful and then choose to learn how the tool could work to your advantage. Wouldn't a great first step to understanding a tools capabilities, advantages, and disadvantages be mapping it to familiar concepts like understanding, reasoning, or cheating? It is clear from examples of misuse that many users do think that LLMs are capable of things that they are not so maybe conversations about the proper analogies aren't completely useless.