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> it would be really interesting to have his thoughts on prediction and induction as they relate to the recent advances in machine learning. For a possibly no
by atticora 3y ago
> it would be really interesting to have his thoughts on prediction and induction as they relate to the recent advances in machine learning.
For a possibly not useless proxy, train an LLM on his oeuvre and ask it.
- teacpde 3y agoI can understand the downvotes, but at the same time it does makes sense, especially given the target is a logician.
- mingus88 3y agoYou’ll get an answer with all of the linguistic flavor of Gödel’s texts and absolutely none of his insights or reasoning. LLM is a language model, not Deep Thought from the hitchhikers guide.
- atticora 3y agoIt works on embeddings, which are concepts. So it would at least be manipulating a similarly weighted network of concepts, though much shallower. It would be an answer from his literal domain of discourse. It would be evocative rather than authoritative.
- piaste 3y agoWhat you describe would be literally worse than nothing. The use of those concepts would make about as much sense as the use of topological concepts in a Lacanian text. A typewriting monkey in a trenchcoat.
- riku_iki 3y ago> For a possibly not useless proxy, train an LLM on his oeuvre and ask it. all major LLMs are likely already trained on his works, so you can already ask: "Hi, ChatGPT, pretend to be Kurt Godel"