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> And they only encoded it. They didn't learn it, and they don't know it. People say stuff like this a lot, and I never know what to do with it. I'm not sure w
by caturopath 3y ago
> And they only encoded it. They didn't learn it, and they don't know it.
People say stuff like this a lot, and I never know what to do with it. I'm not sure what specifically I'm supposed to get out of these distinctions.
- j4yav 3y agoI'm not sure either. An alien could make a similar argument about our brains made of meat and electricity.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoWell, without bothering to get all epistemological about it, it's clear that LLMs doesn't know, say, the law in a way that a lawyer knows it, or physics in the way that a physicist knows it. And that's enough to be a problem, given how people are trying to use LLMs. They're trying to use it like a human who "knows" (whatever that means). And whatever an LLM actually does, it doesn't do that.
- caturopath 3y agoMy uncle doesn't know the law the way a lawyer knows it either, but that doesn't stop him from trying to use it like someone who does ;) If the claim is only "LLMs don't work like humans" and "LLMs make a lot of factual and logical errors", then that seems to be correct as far as it goes, but it doesn't go very far.