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It reminds me of the seo antics out there. The search results page is the engine, much like how distilling is the "intelligence" for your chinese room machine
by td-andrew 1mo ago
It reminds me of the seo antics out there. The search results page is the engine, much like how distilling is the "intelligence" for your chinese room machine
- visarga 1mo agoFunny you mention Chinese Room and LLMs in the same response, I would say LLMs proved Searle wrong, agents now make cutting edge discoveries and meaningful problem solving. They not lookup tables though and you need to pay for inference, so the intuition of syntax doing the work of semantics without understanding was wrong.
- td-andrew 1mo agoWhether it's useful or not isn't the point. Chinese Room was a consideration as to what counts as knowledge. Chinese Room / LLM is not knowledge, it's pattern matching. Having a dude doing translations has always been useful even if they didn't understand the subject matter. Happened all the time pre LLMs