So it is human like, I seen bizarre things from humans every day.
Circuit tracing LLMs reveal some bizarre reasoning processes
Submitted 1 day ago by Acamon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/107347-finally-beginning-understand-how-llms-work-no-they.html
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The way it does math is mostly as people have already assumed - approximating instead of doing it “the normal way”. It’s 2025 and at this point absolutely nobody should be surprised that AI “confidently describe[s] the standard grade-school method, concealing its actual, bizarre reasoning process”.
As for poetry,
this is exactly how many poets write rhymed poetry too, it’s not even remotely bizarre.
Still, it is interesting and good to see some concrete advancement in the study of AI reasoning. Hopefully it will contribute towards reducing the mystification of the whole thing.
Acamon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I didn’t find it particularly bizarre. Both are very natural ways to process verbal information. Anyone who’s ever tried to do arithmetic in a new language knows that we don’t just abstractly do math, a big part is that we know that seven plus eight is fifteen. That’s why they used to teach multiplication tables by rote. It would be lot more bizarre if an llm had independently devised a reliable mathematical algorithm.