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if you'd like to take a quote out of context in order to equate two different technologies, you just go to town.

• hartator 3y ago
  Ilya says it's pretty clear that a very very smart autocomplete leads to intelligence. OP was using the word autocomplete as a pejorative, but it's actually not and it is the strategy LLMs are pursuing. The example that Ilya's was using: If you feed the LLMs a mystery murder novel and it is able to autocomplete "The killer is" from just clues, you have achieved intelligence. Nothing wrong with autocomplete being AGI.
  • code_runner 3y ago
    yeah, when I think of autocomplete I definitely think of predicting the next thing a person is going to type, which is related but basically equivalent to "a horse and a plane to both get to a destination, whats the difference" in my mind. If you're going to speak so abstractly you really lose the forest for the trees IMO. I do like the murder mystery example
    • hartator 3y ago
      > "a horse and a plane to both get to a destination, whats the difference" That's actually a good analogy with autocomplete. A plane reactor still measures itself in "horse"-power. It's technically a very very powerful horse. Trying to get better and better horses got us here. Like GPT-4 is a very very powerful GMail-like autocomplete. :)