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> Brains do not reason ... They can, at times, and do so best when emotion is not involved. > I'm tired of reading comments from people who keep repeating tha
by AdieuToLogic 2y ago
> Brains do not reason ...
They can, at times, and do so best when emotion is not involved.
> I'm tired of reading comments from people who keep repeating that LLMs don't think, don't reason, isn't intelligence because it is not human.
LLM's represent a category of algorithm. Quite elegant and useful in some circumstances, but an algorithm none the less. A quick search produced this[0] example discussing same.
Another reference, which may not be authoritative based on whatever most recent edit the link produces, is[1]:
A large language model (LLM) is a computational model
capable of language generation or other natural language
processing tasks. As language models, LLMs acquire these
abilities by learning statistical relationships from vast
amounts of text during a self-supervised and semi-supervised
training process.
> Define what reasoning is to you.
Reasoning was the process I went through to formulate this response, doing so with intent to convey meaning as best as I can, and understand as best as possible the message to which I am replying.
> Then tell us why LLMs don't reason and why it matters.
LLM's do not possess the ability to perform the process detailed above.
This is why it matters.
0 - https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
- viraptor 2y ago> Reasoning was the process I went through to ... That's not a useful definition for judging whether LLMs reason or not. It's not something we can measure on an objective level and introduces another concept of intent which is just as vague as reasoning. Specifically, an LLM can produce a similar message to what you posted. Everything else about that process is not defined well enough to differentiate you.
- AdieuToLogic 2y ago> > Reasoning was the process I went through to ... > That's not a useful definition for judging whether LLMs reason or not. I formulated this portion of my post specifically to induce contemplation as to what it is when we, as humans, reason. My hope was that this exercise could provide perspective regarding the difference between our existence and really cool, emergent, novel mathematical algorithms.
- Vampiero 2y agoOk, that's cool, now ask GPT to solve any programming or logic problem at all and maybe you'll start to understand why you can reason and why it can't.
- viraptor 2y agoIt can solve some problems and not others. But that would be again a different definition of reasoning, not what the parent wrote. And it would exclude animals/humans as reasoning, because they can't solve all logic problems.