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> which is like having someone take an entire physics course, writing down everything they learn on post-it notes, then you ask a different person a physics que
by nerdsniper 7mo ago
> which is like having someone take an entire physics course, writing down everything they learn on post-it notes, then you ask a different person a physics question, and that different person has to skim all the post-it notes, and then write a new post-it note to answer you
This is the best summary of an LLM that I’ve ever seen (for laypeople to “get it”) and is the first that accurately describes my experience. I will say, usually the notes passed to the second person are very impressive quality for the topic. But the “2nd person” still rarely has a deep understanding of it.
- trollbridge 7mo agoA layperson analogy I use is that an LLM is like Dora with a really high IQ - it effectively needs everything reexplained to it, and you can’t give it more than a few seconds of context before it just forgets.
- slavik81 7mo agoDo you mean Dory, the fish from Finding Nemo?
- neurocline 7mo agoI have to imagine the poster was referring to Dora the Explorer, a popular and charming cartoon from the start of this century.
- tim333 7mo agoI think it must be Dory who has short term memory loss https://youtu.be/B6178Ac90S4?t=22 https://youtu.be/B6178Ac90S4?t=22
- trollbridge 7mo agoObviously my long-term memory is not working so well either.