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'Fancy autocomplete' is a thought-terminating cliche. You can stump a person with a riddle or a logic puzzle or an optical illusion.
by Eisenstein 2y ago
'Fancy autocomplete' is a thought-terminating cliche.
You can stump a person with a riddle or a logic puzzle or an optical illusion.
- gfourfour 2y agoIt’s no more thought-terminating than “intelligence,” which is extremely loaded and causes people to make assumptions about these models that work backwards from the “intelligent” label rather than forwards from the tech itself
- Eisenstein 2y agoSo? Stop using thought-terminating cliches.
- andy99 2y ago"How do you know we're not just next token predictors" is the thought terminating cliche . We know that's what LLMs are. It was certainly eye opening to see how far that gets you. But any deeper claims about intelligence or reasoning need real evidence or at least a proposed line of reasoning. "We don't know how intelligence works so it might be that" doesn't count.
- Eisenstein 2y agoWhen did I say "How do you know we're not just next token predictors"? The fact is that people who say 'it is just fancy autocomplete' are using a thought-terminating cliche, and a 'I stumped an LLM' proves nothing.