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> and can reason enough to synthesize information from what is given That's a qualitative leap from what it does now, and there's no clear basis for believing
by nerdbert 3y ago
> and can reason enough to synthesize information from what is given
That's a qualitative leap from what it does now, and there's no clear basis for believing the current trajectory of these systems can make that leap.
- throwuwu 3y agoHow? It can use what’s in its context window. I can copy paste documentation or code it’s never seen before and ask it to operate on it and get useful answers. This is what practically all the new AI tools are built on.
- nerdbert 3y agoIt's not reasoning, it's predicting likely text, which it can do because the bits of input you provide overlap with enough bits in its training corpus, because most programming tasks are repetitions of similar patterns. The outcome approximates reasoning in some cases but the process is completely different. It is not building up from principles, it is sifting down from examples.