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LLM does not manipulate concepts, it only manipulates symbols/tokens. Its manipulation of concepts is a product of human imagination and anthropomorphism that w
by strogonoff 3y ago
LLM does not manipulate concepts, it only manipulates symbols/tokens. Its manipulation of concepts is a product of human imagination and anthropomorphism that we like to imbue everything around with.
Concluding that electric signals in the brain can't be intelligence because it's just electricity is a typical pitfall if one does not realize that electric signals in the brain are about as likely to be caused by intelligence as they are to be causing it. Those signals is just one model offered by physics nowadays, which says nothing about the causal direction between those and things like consciousness.
- flangola7 3y ago> LLM does not manipulate concepts, it only manipulates symbols/tokens. Its manipulation of concepts is a product of human imagination and anthropomorphism that we like to imbue everything around with. Do you have proof of this? Who is to say we aren't anthropomorphizing other humans? They're just manipulating electrical charges after all. Phrased another way, if LLMs actually did manipulate concepts, how would their performance differ? What is a tangible example of the former and of the latter?
- strogonoff 3y agoWe know this because we built the LLM and we know exactly how it works.