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> LLMs are just generating text. I really can't stand these low-effort takes. It's like saying "Human brains are just meat". You can summarize anything badly,
by gaganyaan 3y ago
> LLMs are just generating text.
I really can't stand these low-effort takes. It's like saying "Human brains are just meat". You can summarize anything badly, but it's not helpful to the conversation.
Whatever quibbles you have aside, LLMs are generating useful text, today. At some point you're just pointlessly privileging meat over silicon.
- pdonis 3y ago> It's like saying "Human brains are just meat". No, it isn't, because human brains have rich semantic connections to the rest of the world. LLMs do not. So "LLMs are just generating text" is a justified description of their limitations, in a way that "human brains are just meat" is not.
- gaganyaan 3y ago> LLMs do not Prove it
- pdonis 3y agoI don't have to; the people who designed the LLMs have already done so by explicitly describing how they work. See, for example, my contrast of what an LLM does with what Wolfram Alpha does upthread.
- gaganyaan 3y agoWolfram Alpha has a model of the world manually created by humans. LLMs generate a model of the world from training data. "Explicitly describing" how something works doesn't mean you wave your hands and say "therefore meat is magic". I have no idea why you think Wolfram Alpha is relevant. LLMs can use tools like langchain to do the exact same thing Wolfram Alpha does. What proof do you have for your original claim?