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Have you considered that the nature of numeric characters is just so predictable that they can be sorted without actually understanding their numerical value?
by manmal 2y ago
Have you considered that the nature of numeric characters is just so predictable that they can be sorted without actually understanding their numerical value?
- jbay808 2y agoCan you say more precisely what you mean?
- manmal 2y agoI mean that maybe gradient descent is a passable sorting algorithm, once the weights have been learned to properly describe ordering. It may be a speciality of transformers that they can sort things well. Which wouldn’t tell us that much about whether they are mentalists or not.