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> LLMs generate statistically plausible continuations of text. This works well for self-contained tasks like writing a function or drafting documentation becaus
by baq 5mo ago
> LLMs generate statistically plausible continuations of text. This works well for self-contained tasks like writing a function or drafting documentation because these are pattern‑extension problems. But pattern‑matching is not system understanding, and plausibility is not correctness.
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- Bnjoroge 5mo agoYup. Just shows me that they are either oblivious about how much better they’ve gotten or simply unaware. Either way, hard to take their opinions seriously
- Wowfunhappy 5mo agoYeah, this is basically the same "LLMs are just next-word predictors", right? It's obviously true... and yet when the next word is the completion of a chat template, suddenly they can talk to you. I don't know how far that will ultimately go, but "they're fundamentally just X" isn't providing useful information anymore.