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Maybe it's less about "Human VS Robot" and more about exposure to "Original thoughts VS mass-produced average thoughts". I don't think a human mind would be im
by diggan 3y ago
Maybe it's less about "Human VS Robot" and more about exposure to "Original thoughts VS mass-produced average thoughts".
I don't think a human mind would be improving if they're in a echo-chamber with no new information. I think the reason the human mind is improving is because we're exposed to new, original and/or different thoughts, that we hadn't considered or come across before.
Meanwhile, a LLM will just regurgitate the most likely token based on the previous one, so there isn't any originality there, hence any output from a LLM cannot improve another LLM. There is nothing new to be learned, basically.
- bluefirebrand 3y ago> I don't think a human mind would be improving if they're in a echo-chamber with no new information If this were true of humans, we would have never made it this far Humans are very capable of looking around themselves and thinking "I can do better than this", and then trying to come up with ways how LLMs are not
- diggan 3y ago> Humans are very capable of looking around themselves and thinking "I can do better than this" Doesn't this require at least some perspective of what "better than this" means, which you could only know with at least a bit of outside influence in one way or another?
- Jensson 3y agoEvery human has feelings and instincts, they answer what "better than this" means. Yes, even in math and science, those were built on top of our feeling of "better than this" iterated over thousands of years.
- esafak 3y agoParsimony, explanatory power, and aesthetics. These are things that could be taught to a computer, and I think we will. We had to evolve them too.