@Ulrich @ggppjj does it help to compare an image generator to an LLM? With AI art you can tell a computer produced it without "knowing" anything more than what other art of that type looks like. But if you look closer you can also see that it doesn't "know" a lot: extra fingers, hair made of cheese, whatever. LLMs do the same with words. They just calculate what words might realistically sit next to each other given the context of the prompt. It's plausible babble.
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Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago…how is it incapable of something it is actively doing?
Flisty@mstdn.social 4 weeks ago
ggppjj@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What do you believe that it is actively doing?
Again, it is very cool and incredibly good math that provides the next word in the chain that most likely matches what came before it. They do not think. Even models that deliberate are essentially just self-reinforcing the internal math with what is basically a second LLM to keep the first on-task, because that appears to help distribute the probabilities better.
I will not answer the brain question until LLMs have brains also.
4am@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
The most amazing feat AI has performed so far is convincing laymen that they’re actually intelligent