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These criticisms of AI critics aren't particularly technical, but I found them to be an interesting check on my blanket belief that llms don't do much more than guess what comes next.
even if we grant their claim that LLM's don't reason like people do and don't have an "embodied understanding of the world", it doesn't follow that this is some really fundamental limitation on their capabilities.
102 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 15h
I would argue that not only is it is reasonable to say that there a "mind" in some LLM's, it is actually a representation of pieces of thousands or millions of minds. I think that is a much more useful way to think about them.
An "aggregation" of millions of minds. It's interesting to see what happens when we reinforce the quality output (ourselves - this may be subjective) and remove the slop; would it become less sloppy?
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 12h
Rarely do I find the result of one of my queries to be slop. Frequently do I find the outputs posted by other people to be slop. This probably has nothing to do with the results, and everything that I'm looking for when reading.
When I query, most of the time I'm looking for something in the output, not the framing of the output -- which is often the slop part.
I doubt the thing that makes outputs feel like slop can really be reinforced away.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 11h
I always tell chatbots to reply in prose and to absolutely not use bullet points because I've grown allergic to these.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @itsrealfake 11h
An "aggregation" of the output of millions of minds.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 11h
Ah yes! Thanks!
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Shallit is perhaps responding to statements like this
what does machine learning do? it creates a statistical model based off input data to suit a reward function. the better such a model is at suiting this goal, the more predictable and reliable its outputs will be. when something becomes reliable and predictable, it becomes boring. source
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