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The best way to describe the LLM intelligence is "an expert system that works the way people thought expert systems would work". You can encode a massive amount
by Jensson 2mo ago
The best way to describe the LLM intelligence is "an expert system that works the way people thought expert systems would work". You can encode a massive amount of skills into an LLM, and then the LLM uses those to navigate problems.
But the LLM is still dumb where those skills doesn't have good coverage, since unlike the expert systems it maps fuzzily to its skills, and they are tuned to produce results over rejecting the request when its unclear if coverage is good. As long as that is true you have to treat them as dumb even if they sometimes produce brilliant results.
- gortok 2mo agoI’m not looking to argue about your position, but I think the inciting incident in the OP shows evidence that LLMs are “dumb” even when they have the sum total of written language and code at their training disposal. In this case I would expect, for your supposition to be true, that an LLM would not mistake a code comment for an actual vulnerability.