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The LLMs don't understand anything. At all. They have rules they respond to. But that doesn't mean they actually "get" a single word of what they're blathering.
by PeterCorless 3y ago
The LLMs don't understand anything. At all. They have rules they respond to. But that doesn't mean they actually "get" a single word of what they're blathering.
A computer has no sense of "intent" or "meaning" to what they have indexed and scanned. There is no intent or meaning to what they spit out in generated text.
We're back in the Chinese room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
- azakai 3y agoThe Chinese Room Argument is considered by many to be incorrect on those matters. But it has led to decades of interesting philosophical debate, which is worth reading to see the various perspectives. This is an excellent summary: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/