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> we somehow observe behaviors that resemble reasoning, abstraction, and even creativity. Puleeze. You type a search into Google and it returns a news article.
by chrisjj 9mo ago
> we somehow observe behaviors that resemble reasoning, abstraction, and even creativity.
Puleeze. You type a search into Google and it returns a news article. Did you observe Google being creative?
> where exactly does the apparent intelligence come from?
The user's gullibility.
- verdverm 9mo agoDogs have intelligence, bees have intelligence, even slime molds some would argue. They are all different, yet still recognized. For you, why Ai is different?
- chrisjj 9mo agoWhy is your fridge, toaster or keyfob different? Same applies.
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- sichengo 9mo agoHmm, good point, but google only retrieves information from the web but LLMs do generate a new continuations from learned distributions. I would say the interesting question is that why modeling reasoning traces at scale produces reasoning like behavior at all.
- chrisjj 9mo ago"Continuations"? Simple stochastic parrotry. > I would say the interesting question is that why modeling reasoning traces at scale produces reasoning like behavior at all. It doesn't. Its simply anthropomorphisation. The only reasoning you see is that of the sources - parotted by the bot.