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> Do you know every common programing language? The LLM does, plus it can code in FRACTRAN, Brainfuck, Binary lambda calculus, and a dozen other obscure languag
by timschmidt 1y ago
> Do you know every common programing language? The LLM does, plus it can code in FRACTRAN, Brainfuck, Binary lambda calculus, and a dozen other obscure languages.
Not only this, but they're surprisingly talented at reading compiled binaries in a dozen different machine and bytecodes. I have seen one one-shot an applet rewrite from compiled java bytecode to modern javascript.
- anthk 1y agoBinwalk, Unicorn... as if it that was advanced wizardry. Unix systems have file(1) since forever and binutils from and to every arch.
- Energiekomin 1y agoYes it is and you compare apples with pineapples. file can't program in brainfuck while doing basic binary analysis. Binwalk and Unicorn can't do that either. And they can't write to you in multiply natural languages either
- catigula 1y agoAnd herein lies the fundamental power of the LLM and why it can even solve "impressive" problems: it is able to navigate a space that humans can't trivially - massive amounts of information and ability to parse through walls of simple logic/text. LLMs are at their best when the context capacity of the human is stretched and the task doesn't really take any reasoning but requires an extraction of some basic, common pattern.
- dylan604 1y ago> it is able to navigate a space that humans can't trivially - massive amounts of information and ability to parse through walls of simple logic/text. That’s the very reason we built computers. If an LLM did not also meet this definition, there would be no point of it existing
- catigula 1y agoYou're not the first person to suggest that LLMs have no reason to exist.