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dataflowtoday at 5:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

Question for those who believe LLMs aren't intelligent and are merely statistical word predictors: how do you reconcile such achievements with that point of view?

(To be clear: I'm not agreeing or disagreeing. I sometimes feel the same too. I'm just curious how others reconcile these.)


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downbootstoday at 7:30 AM

It doesn't matter if you use a car or go there walking. If your goal is cave exploration, the tools are irrelevant.

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fc417fc802today at 6:42 AM

Those things aren't mutually exclusive. They are demonstrably statistical token predictors (go examine an open source implementation) and they clearly exhibit intelligence.