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Agreed with the need for transparency, but LLMs are anything but compilers. Compilers, by definition, produce semantically equivalent code from one language to
by soraminazuki 4mo ago
Agreed with the need for transparency, but LLMs are anything but compilers. Compilers, by definition, produce semantically equivalent code from one language to another. If a tool's output lacks any defined semantics, it isn’t a compiler. Because how good is a "compiler" whose outputs are entirely undefined behavior?
- warkdarrior 4mo ago> If a tool's output lacks any defined semantics, it isn’t a compiler. Are you claiming that the natural language of the LLM output (e.g., English, Chinese) does not have semantics?? Someone should tell all the people cited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_semantics_(natural_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_semantics_(natural_lang...
- soraminazuki 4mo agoIf you have to conflate programming language theory with linguistics to make an argument, it's not a good argument. Because you can strawman all you want, but you can't change the fact that there's no well defined behavior regarding what happens when you instruct LLMs to make a program that calculates 2 + 2. What's stopping it from creating index.html with 5 in it as a response?