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If someone asked you, you would know about the context. LLMs are predictors, no matter the context length, they never "know" what they are doing. They simply pr
by zwnow 11mo ago
If someone asked you, you would know about the context. LLMs are predictors, no matter the context length, they never "know" what they are doing. They simply predict tokens.
- block_dagger 11mo agoThis common response is pretty uninteresting and misleading. They simply predict tokens? Oh. What does the brain do, exactly?
- zwnow 11mo agoThe brain has intrinsic understanding of the world engraved in our DNA. We do not simply predict tokens based on knowledge, we base our thoughts on intelligence, emotions and knowledge. LLMs neither have intelligence nor emotions. If your brain simply predicts tokens I feel sorry for you. Edit: really does not surprise me that AI bros downvote this. Expecting to understand human values from people that want to make themselves obsolete was a mistake.
- pseidemann 11mo ago> The brain has intrinsic understanding of the world engraved in our DNA. This is not correct. The DNA encodes learning mechanisms shaped by evolution. But there is no "Wikipedia" about the world in the DNA. The DNA is shaped by the process of evolution, and is not "filled" by seemingly random information.
- zwnow 11mo ago> But there is no "Wikipedia" about the world in the DNA. Im surprised as to how you got to that conclusion by my wording. I never claimed u have something like a knowledge base in ur DNA...
- pseidemann 11mo agoIt's your first sentence. The one I have quoted.
- Timwi 11mo agoI'm not an AI bro and I downvoted mostly because of the addendum.
- wafflemaker 11mo agoIt does exactly the same, predicts tokens, but it's totally different and superior to LLMs /s OTOH, brain tokens seem to be concept based and not always linguistic (many people think solely in images/concepts).
- ricardobeat 11mo agoLLMs are “concept based” too, if you can call statistical patterns that. In a multi-modal model the embeddings for text, image and audio exist in the same high-dimensional space. We don’t seem to have any clue if this is how our brain works, yet.
- KalMann 11mo ago> It does exactly the same, predicts tokens, That is an absolutely wild claim you've made. You're being way to presumptious.
- adammarples 11mo agoWe don't how
- digbybk 11mo agoI guarantee that once we do know people will start appending the word “just” to the explanation. Complex behaviors emerge from simple components. Knowing that doesn’t make the emergence any more incredible.