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An LLM isn’t a human brain and it’s almost always a mistake to think of it as one. The LLM is more akin to a search engine with a much more advanced interface.
by afavour 3y ago
An LLM isn’t a human brain and it’s almost always a mistake to think of it as one.
The LLM is more akin to a search engine with a much more advanced interface. If Google published the entirety of a book without having the rights they’d be taken to court too.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying they’re the same, I think there are convincing arguments to be made either way. I just don’t think the comparison to a human brain is the right one.
- fragmede 3y agowhich, for anybody following along at home, is related to something that happened back in 2015. Google was trying to digitize the world's books and got sued for it. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/16/449172748/googles-book-scanning-project-is-legal-u-s-appeals-court-says https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/16/449172748...
- throwawayadvsec 3y agoa LLM is closer to a very primitive brain than a search engine. A search engine can't make mistakes, it output data verbatim, it may not be able to find something, but it's never making mistakes. A LLM have an input, and an output, which can wildly differ, it can respond to your demands, even trigger other software with relevant data. It's way closer to a primitive brain than to a search engine.