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Veraticus to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines

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Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines

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    No; they do exactly what they were designed to do

    Are we arguing semantics here?

    https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/emergence https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.07682.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.15004.pdf

    I could be wrong, obviously, but I don’t think this is as straightforward or settled as you are suggesting.

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      Lol… come on. Your second source disagrees with your assertion:

      Via all three analyses, we provide evidence that alleged emergent abilities evaporate with different metrics or with better statistics, and may not be a fundamental property of scaling AI models.

      You are wrong and it is quite settled. Read more, including the very sources you’re trying to recommend others read.

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