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Excited? I doubt that. I'm guessing you haven't read his books.
by atomic128 7mo ago
Excited? I doubt that. I'm guessing you haven't read his books.
- seanmcdirmid 7mo agoThe techno pessimists on HN are probably not PhDs in computer science. I don’t think they understand what it takes to get there, and how it shapes your thinking afterwards.
- defrost 7mo agoNeither Wolf nor Knuth are PhDs in Computer Science, yet many would agree that both understand "what it takes to get there" as do many others who else live sans a PhD in Comp. Sci.
- robotresearcher 7mo agoNeedlessly pedantic. Knuth's PhD is in mathematics, like Alan Turing, and many other significant computer scientists.
- defrost 7mo ago> Needlessly pedantic. You don't have to pre warn readers about your comments here, we're all needlessly pedantic. That aside, the guts of this sub branch is the correlation between {techno pessimists on HN} and {people qualified to understand LLM's (workings and implications)}. Personally I wouldn't limit set two to "PhDs in computer science" or even accept that {all PhD's in Comp Sci} is a subset of set two, as I made clear with my comment, nor would I argue a lack of overlap between sets one and two. I'm interested to hear where you stand.
- CharlesW 7mo agoHe seems pretty fascinated with the possibilities. https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt
- atomic128 7mo ago"I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same. Best regards, Don"
- CharlesW 7mo agoThere's more than one cherry to pick if one needs Mr. Knuth to have a purely-negative opinion about LLMs, but naturally any fascination is offset by the same concerns that any sane technologist has. In any case, it's all in his post.