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Fascinating. This is invisible to me, what anthropomorphising did you notice that stood out?
by zingar 6mo ago
Fascinating. This is invisible to me, what anthropomorphising did you notice that stood out?
- philipwhiuk 6mo agoFrom the first sentence > I asked an AI agent to solve a programming problem You're not asking it to solve anything. You provide a prompt and it does autocomplete. The only reason it doesn't run forever is that one of the generated tokens is interpreted as 'done'.
- xeyownt 6mo agoWhat a poor explanation. With the same reasoning, human being are only a bunch of atoms, and the only reason they don't collide with other humans is because of the atomic force. When your abstraction level is too low, it doesn't explain anything, because the system that is built on it is way too complex.
- chrisjj 6mo ago"Autocomplete" is noy an abstraction level. It is the actual programmed behaviour.
- rcxdude 6mo agoAt a certain level of abstraction, yes.
- Jtarii 6mo agoYou can't understand human behaviour by reading a physics textbook.
- SpicyLemonZest 6mo agoI just don't think that's correct. When I ask Claude to solve something for me, it takes a number of actions on my computer which are neither writing text nor interpreting the done token. It executes the build, debugs tests, et cetera. Sometimes it spawns mini-mes when it thinks that would be helpful! I think saying this is all "autocomplete" is a category error, like saying that you shouldn't talk about clicking buttons or running programs because it's all just electrically charged silicon under the hood.
- zzzeek 6mo agoyup, or "I played a first person shooter and shot lots of bad guys" wrong! pushed buttons on your playstation in response to graphical simulations, duh
- happygoose 6mo agotechnically, it does all that by outputting text, like `run_shell_command("cargo build")` as part of its response. But you could easily say similar things about humans. To me, "autocomplete" seems like it describes the purpose of a system more than how it functions, and these agents clearly aren't designed to autocomplete text to make typing on a phone keyboard a bit faster. I feel like people compare it to "autocomplete" because autocomplete seems like a trivial, small, mundane thing, and they're trying to make the LLMs feel less impressive. It's a rhetorical trick that is very overused at this point.
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- zzzeek 6mo agoCeci n'est pas une pipe
- Jtarii 6mo agoWhen someone asks you a question in what ways are you not an "autocomplete"? You aren't aware of how you come up with the words you are saying, you just start talking and the next word somehow falls out of your mouth. Maybe you think before you start talking, but where do the thoughts come from? They just appear to you in your head. We are just as much a predictive machine as LLMs, the human brain is just fuzzier.
- slopinthebag 6mo agoWell, maybe this is how you think but not everyone is a self-admitted NPC. Speak for yourself only please.
- DangitBobby 6mo agoIt's how literally everyone thinks. Your thoughts come unbidden via a process you do not understand and cannot observe and your consciousness follows them along. Your brain is not as special as you imagine.
- slopinthebag 6mo agoActually that this happens through our subconscious is incredibly special. Our brains are a marvel.
- DangitBobby 6mo agoIt's like we have little thinking sub-agents auto-completing cognition tokens in the background that then surface findings to the main agent which then auto-completes some more cognition tokens in the foreground.
- slopinthebag 6mo agoHah thats cute actually
- Jtarii 6mo ago
- paradox460 6mo agoAnd if you suppress the stop word, things get funky really fast. Like a Joyce novel