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"An LLM, a Markov chain, and GPT-4 walk into a bar. The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here." GPT-4 leaves. The LLM stays to debate ethics. The Markov
by anvuong 2y ago
"An LLM, a Markov chain, and GPT-4 walk into a bar. The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here." GPT-4 leaves. The LLM stays to debate ethics. The Markov chain orders a bicycle made of spaghetti."
This is actually gold.
- muglug 2y agoIt’s... not? Even for the low bar of a geek joke it makes no sense since GPT-4 is an LLM.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoThat’s what makes it gold.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoIn normal English usage this would imply that the LLM was not GPT-4 LLM but some stereotypical anonymous LLM. In business terms GPT-4 can be said to be superior because it understood the instruction and left, in AI terms the anonymous LLM might be superior because it may have understood the instruction but responded in an "intelligent" manner by arguing about the morality of the instructions. At a meta-level the joke thus argues that GPT in achieving business ends has had its intelligence hampered. As have we all. At the same meta-level as the joke was constructed by Claude it can be argued that Claude is commenting on both the intellectual limitations of the Markov chain (insane babblings), and GPT-4 (unimaginative, inhibited business type) and that the best version is some LLM that is not GPT-4 with its limitations - an LLM like Claude. Sneaky Claude.
- Kuinox 2y agoDoes the markov chain would write something that make more sense ?
- scambier 2y agoIt's implied that GPT-4 has so many restrictions that will not argue and just do what is asked. In the context of the joke, an unfiltered LLM will just debate you.
- nevertoolate 2y agoYou're watching a stage play - a banquet is in progress. The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists of boiled dog.
- zaik 2y agoIs this to be an empathy test?