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LLMs can't think.
by Kwpolska 3y ago
LLMs can't think.
- FeepingCreature 3y agoLLMs can think.
- tasuki 3y agoSource?
- FeepingCreature 3y agoI use them a lot. They sure seem thinky. The other day I had one write a website for me. Totally novel concept. No issues.
- tasuki 3y agoI have a similar experience. Just thought it'd be cute to ask you both for sources. Interesting that asking you for sources got me upvoted, while asking the other guy for sources got me downvoted :)
- tasuki 3y agoSource?
- Kwpolska 3y agoLLMs string together words using probability and randomness. This makes their output sound extremely confident and believable, but it may often be bullshit. This is not comparable to thought as seen in humans and other animals.
- kragen 3y agounfortunately that is exactly what the humans are doing an alarming fraction of the time
- yifanl 3y agoOne of the differences is that humans are very good at not doing word associations if we think they don't exist, which makes us able to outperform LLMs even without a hundred billion dollars worth of hardware strapped into our skulls.
- kragen 3y agothat's called epistemic humility, or knowing what you don't know, or at least keeping your mouth shut, and in my experience actually humans suck at it, in all those forms
- cpeterso 3y agoAsk an LLM.