I don’t have a philosophical problem with LLMs. I have a problem with treating LLMs as something other than what they are: Predictive text generators. There’s n

I don’t have a philosophical problem with LLMs. I have a problem with treating LLMs as something other than what they are: Predictive text generators. There’s no understanding beneath that which informs the generation, just compression techniques that arise as part of training. Thus I wouldn’t trust them for anything except churning out plausibly-structured text.