alt Hacker NewsCould we stop using vague terms like “understanding” when talking about LLMs and machine learning? You don't know what understanding is. You only know how it feels to understand something.
It's better to describe what you can do that LLMs currently can't.
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stevenhuang • yesterday at 7:49 AM
At least it's an easy way for those who don't know that they're talking about to out themselves.
If they'd bother to see how modern neuroscience tries to explain human cognition they'd see it explained in terms that parallel modern ML. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
We only have theories for what intelligence even means, I wouldn't be surprised there are more similarities than differences between human minds and LLMs, fundamentally (prediction and error minimization)
We can't use understanding but we can use learning, got it.