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ameliusyesterday at 1:56 PM4 repliesview on HN

Studies of LLMs belong in their own field of science, just like psychology is not being studied in the physics department.


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gueloyesterday at 8:20 PM

¸That field is called Machine Learning.

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osigurdsonyesterday at 7:54 PM

That is a very interesting thought!

littlestymaaryesterday at 4:44 PM

Interestingly enough, for a while physics used to be studied by philosophers (and used to be put in the natural philosophy basket, together with biology and most other hard sciences).

zer00eyzyesterday at 2:36 PM

The intersection of physics isnt psychology it is philosophy, and the same is true (at present) with LLM's

Much as Diogenes mocked Platos definition of a man with a plucked chicken, LLM's revealed what "real" ai would require: contigous learning. That isnt to diminish the power of LLM's (the are useful) but that limitation is a fairly hard one to over come if true AGI is your goal.

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