alt Hacker NewsFrom my naive standpoint, LLMs like this seem to have some big strengths. One: possession of a superhuman expanse of knowledge. Two: making connections. Three: tireless trial and error.
If you put those three things together, you end up with some cool stuff from time to time. Perhaps the proof of P!=NP is tied to an obscure connection that humans don't easily see due to individual lack of knowledge or predisposition of bias.
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Unless my understanding is incorrect about how these tools work that last point isn't really a quality of LLMs as such? It gets attributed because the lines are blurred but the tireless trial and error is actually just a quality of a regular programatic loop (agent/orchestrator) that happens to be doing the trickiest part of its work via an LLM.
Three: tireless trial and error. Cannot agree more. I figured this probably be the biggest advantage of LLM considering for other variables humans hold the same-level competency.
This is why the whole "LLMs for mass surveillance" thing is scary imo.
>One: possession of a superhuman expanse of knowledge. Two: making connections. Three: tireless trial and error.
One and three I believe are correct. The second point, making connections, is something LLMs seem to be incapable of truly doing unless the connection is already known and in its training data.
Well put.
>If you put [possession of a superhuman expanse of knowledge, making connections, tireless trial and error] together, you end up with some cool stuff from time to time.
Hard to argue.