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Bad analogy, an LLM can output a block of text all at once and it wouldn't impact the user's ability to understand it. If people spoke all the words in a senten
by wuliwong 2y ago
Bad analogy, an LLM can output a block of text all at once and it wouldn't impact the user's ability to understand it. If people spoke all the words in a sentence at the same time, it would not be decipherable. Even writing doesn't yield a good analogy, a human writing physically has to write one letter at a time. An LLM does not have that limitation.
- sdwr 2y agoThe point I'm trying to make is that "each word following the last" is a limitation of the medium, not the speaker. Language expects/requires words in order. Both people and LLMs produce that. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty, people are perfectly capable of doing multiple things simultaneously as well, using: - interrupts to handle task-switching (simulated multitasking) - independent subconscious actions (real multitasking) - superpositions of multiple goals (??)