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Which arithmetic operation in an LLM is weird?
by measurablefunc 10mo ago
Which arithmetic operation in an LLM is weird?
- ACCount37 10mo agoThe fact that you can represent abstract thinking as a big old bag of matrix math sure is.
- measurablefunc 10mo agoSo it's not weird, it's actually very mundane.
- ACCount37 10mo agoIf your takeaway from the LLM breakthrough is "abstract thinking is actually quite mundane", then at least you're heading in the right direction. Some people are straight up in denial.
- measurablefunc 10mo agoYou have no idea what abstract thinking actually is but you are convinced the illusion presented by an LLM is it. Your ontology is confused but I doubt you are going to figure out why b/c that would require some abstract thinking which you're convinced is no more special than matrix arithmetic.
- ACCount37 10mo agoIf I wanted worthless pseudo-philosophical drivel, I'd ask GPT-2 for some. Otherwise? Functional similarity at this degree is more than good enough for me. By now, I am fully convinced that this denial is "AI effect" in action. Which, in turn, is nothing but cope and seethe driven by human desire to remain Very Special.
- measurablefunc 10mo agoWhich matrix arithmetic did you perform to find that gold nugget of insight?