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> If you built an LLM exclusively on the writings and letters of John Steinbeck, you could NOT tell the LLM to solve an integral for you amd expect it to be rig
by netdevphoenix 7mo ago
> If you built an LLM exclusively on the writings and letters of John Steinbeck, you could NOT tell the LLM to solve an integral for you amd expect it to be right.
Isn't this obvious? There is not enough latent knowledge of math there to enable current LLMs to approximate anything resembling an integral.
- RobRivera 7mo agoIts obvious to me. Its obvious to you. It isnt obvious to the person I am responding to, and it isnt obvious to majority of individuals I speak with on the matter (which is why AI, personally, is in the bucket of religion amd politics for polite conversation to simply avoid)
- kenjackson 7mo agoWait -- I'm fairly certain this is obvious to the person you were responding to. It may not be obvious to a lay person (who may not even know LLMs are trained at all). But I think this is obvious to almost all people with even a small understanding of LLMs.
- RobRivera 7mo agoI'm actually pretty convinced they're a troll or at the very least a high confrontation participant who is quick to move goal posts, ignore entire chains of logic, engage in ad hominim attacks of other posters, and is bringing zero novel insight anywhere in this thread
- simianwords 7mo agoone of the posters said it can't even reason through chess, i ran the actual benchmark, spent money and actually proved that it can beat a 1000 elo chess engine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316787 does this show i'm a troll? throughout this thread there has been misinformation that i have been dispelling. what you are doing is ad hominem. here's another post where i ran the prompt that the person asked which would apparently show that LLM's can't reason https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316855 have you considered that you might be misinformed so what i say might look like trolling?
- RobRivera 7mo agoWhat do you do for work?
- simianwords 7mo agoIt’s obvious to me. What point are you trying to make? It’s not religion it’s falsifiable easily. LLMs can reason about integrals as well as in a literature context. You suggested that if it’s not trained on literature then it can’t reason about it. But why does that matter?
- Talanes 7mo agoNow what if we ask the LLM to write about social media? Do you think the output would be similar to what you'd get if we had a time machine to bring the actual man back and have him form his own thoughts firsthand?
- bigfishrunning 7mo agoIt may be stylistically similar, but it's impossible to predict what the content would be.