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"I'll begin by clearing a big misunderstanding people have regarding how Large Language Models work. The assumption that most people make is that these models c
by z7 2y ago
"I'll begin by clearing a big misunderstanding people have regarding how Large Language Models work. The assumption that most people make is that these models can answer questions or chat with you, but in reality all they can do is take some text you provide as input and guess what the next word (or more accurately, the next token) is going to be."
What separates this from the following:
"I'll begin by clearing a big misunderstanding people have regarding how the human brain works. The assumption that most people make is that the brain can think, reason, and understand language, but in reality all it can do is process electrical and chemical signals."
- seydor 2y agoyeah i think we are at a point of reflection in philosophy of mind, where we ponder if that our "thinking", our communication and dialogues are mechanistic continuations taking place serially in one or more brains
- z7 2y agoWhether brains or LLMs, claiming that "in reality all they can do" is X seems dubious, given that a system can have properties that its constituents do not have on their own. As an explanation of the emerging complexity of what "they can do" it is fundamentally unsatisfying.