Computers are awesome at “recognizing patterns” as long as the pattern is a statistical average of some possible worthless data set.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
You know, despite not really believing LLM “intelligence” works anywhere like real intelligence, I kind of thought maybe being good at recognizing patterns was a way to emulate it to a point…
But that study seems to prove they’re still not even good at that. At first I was wondering how hard the puzzles must have been, and then there’s a bit about LLM finishing 100 move towers of Hanoï (on which they were trained) and failing 4 move river crossings. Logically, those problems are very similar… Also, failing to apply a step-by-step solution they were given.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This paper doesn’t prove that LLMs aren’t good at pattern recognition, it demonstrates the limits of what pattern recognition alone can achieve, especially for compositional, symbolic reasoning.