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jnwatsontoday at 10:02 PM3 repliesview on HN

The cure for HER2- metastatic breast cancer is a simple matter of ...

Please predict the next word.

Intelligence is implicit in language understanding. The best possible next-word-predictor is omniscient.


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Avicebrontoday at 10:14 PM

> The best possible next-word-predictor is omniscient.

Omniscient for the set of "meaning" embedded into it's training set. It's not broadly omniscient, big difference.

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layer8today at 10:20 PM

What does omniscience have to do with reasoning? If you know everything, you don’t have to reason. But these next-word-predictors aren’t omniscient.

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sobelliantoday at 10:13 PM

The cure for HER2- metastatic breast cancer is a simple matter of [intensive well-funded research]

That wasn't too hard, maybe I'm superintelligent?