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To quote Luke Skywalker: Amazing. Every word of what you just said is wrong.

TeMPOraL 9mo ago
Which is why I keep saying that anthropomorphizing LLMs gives you good high-order intuitions about them, and should not be discouraged. Consider: GP would've been much more correct if they said "It's just a person on a chip." Still wrong, but much less, in qualitative fashion, than they are now.
- NoGravitas 9mo ago
  Just a weird little guy.
  - dematz 9mo ago
    A hungry ghost trapped in a jar (https://bsky.app/profile/hikikomorphism.bsky.social/post/3lwamjk3pjk2x https://bsky.app/profile/hikikomorphism.bsky.social/post/3lw...)
    - TeMPOraL 9mo ago
      Similar analogy, yes. FWIW, I prefer my "little people on a chip" because this is a deliberate riff on SoC, aka. System on a Chip, aka. an actual component you put when designing computer systems. The implication being, when you design information processing systems, the box with "LLM" on it should go where you'd consider putting a box with "Person" on it, not where you'd put "Database" or any other software/hardware box.
- cess11 9mo ago
  No, it does not, it just adds to the risk that you'd be fooled by them or the corporations that produce them and surveil you through their SaaS-models. It's a person in the same sense as a Markov chain is one, or the bot in the reception on Starship Titanic, i.e. not at all.
cess11 9mo ago
No, it is not. It's a funny way of compressing and querying data, nothing else.
- IgorPartola 9mo ago
  It is probabilistic unlike a database which is not. It is also a lossy way to compress data. We could go on about the differences but those two things make it not a database. Edit: unless we are talking about MongoDB. It will only keep your data if you are lucky and might lose it. :)
  - cess11 9mo ago
    No, it is still just a database. It is a way to store and query information, it is nothing else. It's not just the weirdness in Mongo that could exhibit non-deterministic behaviour, some common indexing techniques do not guarantee order and/or exhaustiveness. Let it go, LLM:s and related compression techniques aren't very special, and neither are chatbots or copy-paste-oriented software development. Optimising them for speed or manipulation does not change this, at least not from a technical perspective.

Which is why I keep saying that anthropomorphizing LLMs gives you good high-order intuitions about them, and should not be discouraged. Consider: GP would've been much more correct if they said "It's just a person on a chip." Still wrong, but much less, in qualitative fashion, than they are now.

NoGravitas 9mo ago
Just a weird little guy.
- dematz 9mo ago
  A hungry ghost trapped in a jar (https://bsky.app/profile/hikikomorphism.bsky.social/post/3lwamjk3pjk2x https://bsky.app/profile/hikikomorphism.bsky.social/post/3lw...)
  - TeMPOraL 9mo ago
    Similar analogy, yes. FWIW, I prefer my "little people on a chip" because this is a deliberate riff on SoC, aka. System on a Chip, aka. an actual component you put when designing computer systems. The implication being, when you design information processing systems, the box with "LLM" on it should go where you'd consider putting a box with "Person" on it, not where you'd put "Database" or any other software/hardware box.
cess11 9mo ago
No, it does not, it just adds to the risk that you'd be fooled by them or the corporations that produce them and surveil you through their SaaS-models. It's a person in the same sense as a Markov chain is one, or the bot in the reception on Starship Titanic, i.e. not at all.

cess11 9mo ago

No, it is not. It's a funny way of compressing and querying data, nothing else.

IgorPartola 9mo ago
It is probabilistic unlike a database which is not. It is also a lossy way to compress data. We could go on about the differences but those two things make it not a database. Edit: unless we are talking about MongoDB. It will only keep your data if you are lucky and might lose it. :)
- cess11 9mo ago
  No, it is still just a database. It is a way to store and query information, it is nothing else. It's not just the weirdness in Mongo that could exhibit non-deterministic behaviour, some common indexing techniques do not guarantee order and/or exhaustiveness. Let it go, LLM:s and related compression techniques aren't very special, and neither are chatbots or copy-paste-oriented software development. Optimising them for speed or manipulation does not change this, at least not from a technical perspective.