What is fundamental to LLM's that make it impossible for them to infer intent?
replyAll the limitations you are describing with respect to LLM's are the same as humans. Would a human tripping up on an ambiguously worded question mean they are always just faking their thinking?
“We see emotion.”—We do not see facial contortions and make inferences from them … to joy, grief, boredom. We describe a face immediately as sad, radiant, bored, even when we are unable to give any other description of the features." (Wittgenstein)
replyWhy can a colony of ants do things beyond any capabilities of the ants they contain? No ant can make a decision, but the colony can make complex ones. Large systems composed of simple mechanisms become more than the sum of their parts. Economies, weather, and immune systems, to name a few, all work this way.
replySystems thinking is severely underrepresented in HN comments.
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