What is the difference between what LLM's do and "true" understanding?
replyI feel like people grasping straws on the shrinking limitations of AI systems are just copying the "god of the gaps" fallacy
> What is the difference between what LLM's do and "true" understanding?
replyThe thing where you can understand the meaning of this sentence without first compiling a statistical representation of a 10 trillion line corpus of training data.
Unless you're an NPC of course.
I mean brains get a lot of training data too in order to understand language. I don't think you provided a relevant difference.
replyOr rather, maybe I don't understand what you mean :)
When you think about the word apple and what it signifies, what do you experience? Is there a feeling of "appleness"? Do you think that sense of meaning is equivalent to the numerical weights of an LLM?
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