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Dismissing claims that LLMs "reason" because these machines perform no actions similar to reasoning seems pretty motivated. And I don't think "blindly take inpu
by SiempreViernes 2y ago
Dismissing claims that LLMs "reason" because these machines perform no actions similar to reasoning seems pretty motivated. And I don't think "blindly take input from a reasoning capable system" counts as reasoning.
- hobs 2y agoDoes it? I think Blindsight (the book) had a good commentary on reason being a thing we think is a conscious process but doesn't have to be. I think most people talking past each other are really discussing whether the GPT is conscious, has a mental model of self, that kind of thing, as long as your definition of reasoning doesn't include consciousness it clearly does it (though not well.)
- foobarbecue 2y ago"pretty motivated"? Did you mean biased?
- ChadNauseam 2y agoI assume they meant motivated as shorthand for "motivated reasoning" which implies a bias that's motivating them to reason a certain way
- foobarbecue 2y agoOh, interesting -- that's a new one for me.