Dennis Schubert@emma@orbital.horse @glasspusher@beige.party someone totally posted it there. it's going about as well as you'd imagine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845973
Mimsy Borogrove@denschub@mastodon.schub.social @emma@orbital.horse @glasspusher@beige.party I thought at least this one response was a thoughtful reply.
Dennis Schubert@mimsy_borogrove@mastodon.social @emma@orbital.horse @glasspusher@beige.party yeah there are always a few reasonable people in there. but most people are just knee-jerking, assuming that this post and this one test is the only time I've ever used an LLM. which is hilarious, and hilariously dumb.
j-r conlin@denschub@mastodon.schub.social @mimsy_borogrove@mastodon.social @emma@orbital.horse @glasspusher@beige.party
Imagine being someone arguing that humans are also statistical models and the mathematics of philosophy while the greatest LLMs get stuck in infinite loops saying goodbye to each other.
Dennis Schubert@jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com @mimsy_borogrove@mastodon.social @emma@orbital.horse @glasspusher@beige.party the endless "we don't know what happens inside LLMs, they might be thinking logically!!!" is honestly making me even angrier. it's taking a tiny kernel of truth and then spinning a whole layer of bullshit around that
j-r conlin@denschub@mastodon.schub.social @mimsy_borogrove@mastodon.social @emma@orbital.horse @glasspusher@beige.party
Meh, I just chuckle at the whole "We don't know what's going on inside an LLM".
No, you do. Hell, it's super easy to figure it out because the code, papers, and studies are all out there. The bits that are mysteries are the weights that were generated, and some of the associations, but yeah, y'all already know exactly how these things work.
It's just more fun to yell "MAGIC!"
(I swear these are the same folk that were convinced they had found their spiritual guide in a magic 8 ball.)