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This is always the issues in the discussions.
There’s the outcomes camp (objectivists?), which points at the things LLMs can do.
Then there’s the process methods camp, which talks about what is actually going on.
If you only care about the outcome, then the process does t matter.
If you are talking about what is happening, what the underlying mechanics and science of it is, then the process matters.
These models aren’t thinking. They simulate cognition well enough to do useful work in several fields and domains.
Both are true.
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IshKebab • yesterday at 4:32 PM
> These models aren’t thinking.
They are for any definition of the word that makes any kind of sense. I'm sure you have a contorted definition that magically only includes humans though...
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I think where both camps get hung up is sometimes the process method group "ignores" the obvious outcomes and effectiveness of LLMs.
But the outcomes group "ignores" the fundamental limitations of models which are purely text based.
E.g, a baseball players trains to catch high-speed balls and they dont do it by: "ball velocity 50mph, vector:[1,2,3], run move hand command now"
That's absurd.
No, there is an embodied network which is "trained" on visual, tactile input, and control as direct output.
LLMs are fundamentally not the right tool for that.