alt Hacker NewsWhat makes you think that text is inherently a worse reflection of the world than light is?
All world models are lossy as fuck, by the way. I could give you a list of chess moves and force you to recover the complete board state from it, and you wouldn't fare that much better than an off the shelf LLM would. An LLM trained for it would kick ass though.
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teeray • yesterday at 11:36 PM
> What makes you think that text is inherently a worse reflection of the world than light is?
What does the color green look like?
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abcde666777 • yesterday at 10:53 PM
"What makes you think that text is inherently a worse reflection of the world than light is?"
Come on man, did you think before you asked that one :)?
> I could give you a list of chess moves and force you to recover the complete board state from it, and you wouldn't fare that much better than an off the shelf LLM would
idk, I would expect anyone with an understanding of the rules of chess, and an understanding of whatever notation the moves are in, would be able to do it reasonably well? does that really sound so hard to you? people used to play correspondance chess. Heck I remember people doing it over email.
In comparison, current ai models start to completely lose the plot after 15 or so moves, pulling out third, fourth and fifth bishops, rooks etc from thin air, claiming checkmate erroneously etc, to the point its not possible to play a game with them in a coherent manner.