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I feel this article should be paired with this other one [1] that was on the frontpage a few days ago. My impression is, there is currently one tendency to "ov
by xg15 1y ago
I feel this article should be paired with this other one [1] that was on the frontpage a few days ago.
My impression is, there is currently one tendency to "over-anthropomorphize" LLMs and treat them like conscious or even superhuman entities (encouraged by AI tech leaders and AGI/Singularity folks) and another to oversimplify them and view them as literal Markov chains that just got lots of training data.
Maybe those articles could help guarding against both extremes.
[1] https://www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-understand-how-neural-networks https://www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-understand-how-neural-networ...
- mattgreenrocks 1y agoPreviously when someone called out the tendency to over-anthropomorphize LLMs, a lot of the answers amounted to, “but I like doing it, therefore we should!” I’ll be the first to say one should pick their battles. But hearing that over and over from a crowd like this that can be quite pedantic is very telling.
- tempodox 1y agoThis very comment thread demonstrates how utterly hopeless it is trying to educate the believers. It has developed into a full-blown religion by now.