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LLMs have absolutely nothing to do with truth. If anything the analogy is closer to syntax as LLMs are pure form, just language in absence of any context or ref
by suddenlybananas 10mo ago
LLMs have absolutely nothing to do with truth. If anything the analogy is closer to syntax as LLMs are pure form, just language in absence of any context or reference.
- enriquepablo 10mo agoLLMs tell you one thing and not its negation, this choice is semantic. "just language in absence of any context or reference" is a set that includes every valid text. The usefulness of LLMs is their ability to mostly respect whatever semantics you establish in the prompt in their choice of output.
- suddenlybananas 10mo agoLLMs will definitely tell you a thing and its negation if you prompt them differently.
- ursAxZA 10mo agoIsn’t it just symbols in, symbols out? We have hardware that can process long symbol sequences very fast — that’s basically it.