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Yeah, I am writing word by word, but I am not predicting the next word I thought about what I wanted to respond and am now generating the text to communicate th

Yeah, I am writing word by word, but I am not predicting the next word I thought about what I wanted to respond and am now generating the text to communicate that response, I didn't think by trying to predict what I myself would write to this question.

chpatrick 3y ago
Your brain is undergoing some process and outputting the next word which has some reasonable statistical distribution. You're not consciously thinking about "hmm what word do I put so it's not just random gibberish" but as a whole you're doing the same thing. From my point of view as someone reading the comment I can't tell if it's written by an LLM or not, so I can't use that to conclude if you're intelligent or not.
- evantbyrne 3y ago
  "Your brain is undergoing some process and outputting the next word which has some reasonable statistical distribution. You're not consciously thinking about "hmm what word do I put so it's not just random gibberish" but as a whole you're doing the same thing. From my point of view as someone reading the comment I can't tell if it's written by an LLM or not, so I can't use that to conclude if you're intelligent or not." There is no scientific evidence that LLMs are a close approximation to the human brain in any literal sense. It is uncouth to critique people on the basis of what appears to be nothing more than an analogy.
  - weatherlite 3y ago
    > There is no scientific evidence that LLMs are a close approximation to the human brain in any literal sense Since we don't really understand the brain that well that's not surprising
  - chpatrick 3y ago
    > There is no scientific evidence that LLMs are a close approximation to the human brain in any literal sense. I never said that, just that as a black box system that generates words it doesn't matter if it's similar or not.

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Yeah, I am writing word by word, but I am not predicting the next word I thought about what I wanted to respond and am now generating the text to communicate th

by Jensson 3y ago

chpatrick 3y ago
Your brain is undergoing some process and outputting the next word which has some reasonable statistical distribution. You're not consciously thinking about "hmm what word do I put so it's not just random gibberish" but as a whole you're doing the same thing. From my point of view as someone reading the comment I can't tell if it's written by an LLM or not, so I can't use that to conclude if you're intelligent or not.
- evantbyrne 3y ago
  "Your brain is undergoing some process and outputting the next word which has some reasonable statistical distribution. You're not consciously thinking about "hmm what word do I put so it's not just random gibberish" but as a whole you're doing the same thing. From my point of view as someone reading the comment I can't tell if it's written by an LLM or not, so I can't use that to conclude if you're intelligent or not." There is no scientific evidence that LLMs are a close approximation to the human brain in any literal sense. It is uncouth to critique people on the basis of what appears to be nothing more than an analogy.
  - weatherlite 3y ago
    > There is no scientific evidence that LLMs are a close approximation to the human brain in any literal sense Since we don't really understand the brain that well that's not surprising
  - chpatrick 3y ago
    > There is no scientific evidence that LLMs are a close approximation to the human brain in any literal sense. I never said that, just that as a black box system that generates words it doesn't matter if it's similar or not.