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I think LLM researchers understand how LLMs work and what the limits of using natural language as an interface are. The problem is everyone else thinks they're
by krapp 16d ago
I think LLM researchers understand how LLMs work and what the limits of using natural language as an interface are. The problem is everyone else thinks they're basically magic, expecting them to be infinitely intuitive but also strictly deterministic, like the computer from Star Trek.
- actionfromafar 16d agoThe computer from Star Trek sounds like it could entirely plausibly have been made with LLM components and a century of harness tweaking piled on.
- krapp 16d agoPlausibly based on what? The computer from Star Trek wasn't real. It was Majel Barrett talking into a microphone. You can no more extrapolate any real world computer architecture from that than you can determine amphibian evolution from Kermit the Frog.
- hannasanarion 16d agoIt's a thing you can talk to that does stuff for you. What other "architecture" do you need to know?
- krapp 16d agoFair enough. Your logic is unassailable. There is literally no difference between fiction and reality and no need to understand anything beyond "LLM talk therefore Star Trek real."
- hannasanarion 16d agoLiterally not what the comment you were replying to was saying even remotely, but ok.
- actionfromafar 16d agoRight. Feel free to extrapolate a reading like "I think LLM tech and a century of tinkering could achieve computer performance similar to what it appears the entirely fictional, voiced by Majel Barrett, Star Trek computers has".
- krapp 16d ago>Feel free to extrapolate a reading like "I think LLM tech and a century of tinkering could achieve computer performance similar to what it appears the entirely fictional, voiced by Majel Barrett, Star Trek computers has". But that doesn't mean anything. "Similar to" is vague enough that it could include video game NPC dialogue.