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If you place an LLM into a harness, alongside evaluation, feedback and problem decomposition / solution integration - it is still an LLM? There is an LLM actin
by amoss 2mo ago
If you place an LLM into a harness, alongside evaluation, feedback and problem decomposition / solution integration - it is still an LLM?
There is an LLM acting as a component in a larger system. But that larger system is not an LLM. Calling it an "AI" is indeed an act of marketing as there is no learning / adjustment as we would expect from an intelligence, but calling it an LLM seems to be inaccurate. So what is it?
- frozenseven 2mo ago>Calling it an "AI" is indeed an act of marketing Again, this is literally the name of the field (and the tech). It's been around longer than you and probably your parents. Dartmouth workshop (1956): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop Random dusty undergrad textbook from the early 70s: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/816fxHVJkHL._SL1500_.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/816fxHVJkHL._SL1500_.jpg >there is no learning... If human-like continual learning is suddenly the standard, you can just as easily say that terms like machine learning and deep learning are an "act of marketing".
- amoss 2mo agoQuoting directly from the dartmouth conference: "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."
- frozenseven 2mo agoYes, that's correct. Intelligence is not magic.
- amoss 1mo agoNo, it is the application of learning and that is why learning is central to the definition tgat you pointed at.
- chrisjj 2mo ago> If you place an LLM into a harness, alongside evaluation, feedback and problem decomposition / solution integration - it is still an LLM? Clue: If you put a pig in a poke, is it still a pig?
- amoss 1mo agoAmazingly enough we have different words to mean different things. What is going to really blow your mind is that the word for the part often differs to the word for the whole.