this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

if I copy a coherent sentence into my clipboard, my clipboard becomes capable of consistently making coherent statements

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, but that's not how LLMs work. My statement depends heavily on the fact that a LLM like GPT is coaxed into coherence by unsupervised or semi-supervised training. That the training process works is the evidence of an internal model (of language/related concepts), not just the fact that something outputs coherent statements.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

if I have a bot pick a random book and copy the first sentence into my clipboard, my clipboard becomes capable of consistently making coherent statements. unsupervised training 👍

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

let me free up some of your time so you can go figure out how LLMs actually work