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My man, math is pattern matching, not magic. So is logic. And computation. Please learn the basics before you discuss what LLMs can and can't do.
by killerstorm 11mo ago
My man, math is pattern matching, not magic. So is logic. And computation.
Please learn the basics before you discuss what LLMs can and can't do.
- ozgrakkurt 11mo agoI'm no expert on math but "math is pattern matching" really sounds wrong. Maybe programming is mostly pattern matching but modern math is built on theory and proofs right?
- noddybear 11mo agoNah, its all pattern matching. This is how automated theorem provers like Isabelle are built, applying operations to lemmas/expressions to reach proofs.
- staticman2 11mo agoI'm sure if you pick a sufficiently broad definition of pattern matching your argument is true by definition! Unfortunately that has nothing to do with the topic of discussions, which is the capabilities of LLMs, which may require a more narrow definition of pattern matching.
- vbarrielle 11mo agoAutomated theorem provers are also built around backtracking, which is absent in LLMs.
- HarHarVeryFunny 11mo agoWhen an LLM does it, it's pattern matching. RL training amounts to pattern matching. How does an LLM decode Base64? Decode algorithm? No - predictive pattern matching. An LLM isn't predicting what a person thinks - it's predicting what a person does.