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>> These machines are just unfathomably dumb. I agree with you, and we seem to hold a minority opinion. LLMs contain a LOT of information and are very articula
by phkahler 3y ago
>> These machines are just unfathomably dumb.
I agree with you, and we seem to hold a minority opinion. LLMs contain a LOT of information and are very articulate - they are language models after all. So they seem answer questions well, but fall down on thinking/reasoning about the information they contain.
But then they can play chess. I'm not sure what to make of that. Such an odd mix of capability and uselessness, but the distinction is always related to something like understanding.
- visarga 3y agoLLMs trained on just human text are indeed limited, imitative models. But when they train from the environment they can surpass humans, like AlphaZero or AlphaGeometry