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I wish the authors of the article spent more time studying how LLM works before writing a doomsday scenario. Currently no matter how impressive LLMs are, they a
by sajithdilshan 4mo ago
I wish the authors of the article spent more time studying how LLM works before writing a doomsday scenario. Currently no matter how impressive LLMs are, they are just token auto complete machines. It cannot invent or think anything new which is not in its training dataset.
- nonadhocproblem 4mo agoAre you trolling? OpenAI's models resolved the Cycle Double Conjecture yesterday, which has been an open problem for 50 years.
- sajithdilshan 4mo agoDo you even know what Cycle Double Conjecture is? Or what even a conjecture means in general? It’s a perfect use case for autocomplete with existing knowledge
- nonadhocproblem 4mo agoPlease seek help. These levels of copium can't possibly be healthy.
- ainch 4mo agoOne of the lead authors, Daniel Kokotajlo, worked at OpenAI for years before quitting. In 2021 he wrote a remarkably accurate forecast of how LLMs would develop over the following 5 years[0]. I think it should be obvious that he understands that LLMs are trained via next-token prediction. [0]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-2026-looks-like https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-2026-...