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You've missed something about the Chinese Room. The solution to the Chinese Room riddle is that it is not the person in the room but rather the room itself that is communicating with you. The fact that there's a person there is irrelevant, and they could be replaced with a speaker or computer terminal.
Put differently, it's not an indictment of LLMs that they are merely Chinese Rooms, but rather one should be impressed that the Chinese Room is so capable despite being a completely deterministic machine.
If one day we discover that the human brain works on much simpler principles than we once thought, would that make humans any less valuable? It should be deeply troubling to us that LLMs can do so much while the mathematics behind them are so simple. Arguments that because LLMs are just scaled-up autocomplete they surely can't be very good at anything are not comforting to me at all.
This. I often see people shitting on AI as "fancy autocomplete" or joking about how they get basic things incorrect like this post but completely discount how incredibly fucking capable they are in every domain that actually matters. That's what we should be worried about... what does it matter that it doesn't "work the same" if it still accomplishes the vast majority of the same things? The fact that we can get something that even approximates logic and reasoning ability from a deterministic system is terrifying on implications alone.
Why doesn't the LLM know to write (and run) a program to calculate the number of characters?
I feel like I'm missing something fundamental.
You didn't get good answers so I'll explain.
First, an LLM can easily write a program to calculate the number of
rs. If you ask an LLM to do this, you will get the code back.But the website ChatGPT.com has no way of executing this code, even if it was generated.
The second explanation is how LLMs work. They work on the word (technically token, but think word) level. They don't see letters. The AI behind it literally can only see words. The way it generates output is it starts typing words, and then guesses what word is most likely to come next. So it literally does not know how many
rs are in strawberry. The impressive part is how good this "guessing what word comes next" is at answering more complex questions.But why can't "query the python terminal" be trained into the LLM. It just needs some UI training.
The LLM isn't aware of its own limitations in this regard. The specific problem of getting an LLM to know what characters a token comprises has not been the focus of training. It's a totally different kind of error than other hallucinations, it's almost entirely orthogonal, but other hallucinations are much more important to solve, whereas being able to count the number of letters in a word or add numbers together is not very important, since as you point out, there are already programs that can do that.
At the moment, you can compare this perhaps to the Paris in the the Spring illusion. Why don't people know to double-check the number of 'the's in a sentence? They could just use their fingers to block out adjacent words and read each word in isolation. They must be idiots and we shouldn't trust humans in any domain.
The most convincing arguments that llms are like humans aren't that llm's are good, but that humans are just unrefrigerated meat and personhood is a delusion.
This might well be true yeah. But that's still good news for AI companies who want to replace humans -- bar's lower than they thought.
And why we should fight them tooth and nail, yes.
They're not just replacing us, they're making us suck more so it's an easy sell.
I'd be more impressed if the room could tell me how many "r"s are in Strawberry inside five minutes.
Human biology, famous for being simple and straightforward.
Its not a fucking riddle, it's a koan/thought experiment.
It's questioning what 'communication' fundamentally is, and what knowledge fundamentally is.
It's not even the first thing to do this. Military theory was cracking away at the 'communication' thing a century before, and the nature of knowledge has discourse going back thousands of years.
You're right, I shouldn't have called it a riddle. Still, being a fucking thought experiment doesn't preclude having a solution. Theseus' ship is another famous fucking thought experiment, which has also been solved.
'A solution'
That's not even remotely the point. Yes there are nany valid solutions. The point isn't to solve it, but what how you solve it says about and clarifies your ideas.
I suppose if you're going to be postmodernist about it, but that's beyond my ability to understand. The only complete solution I know to Theseus' Ship is "the universe is agnostic as to which ship is the original. Identity of a composite thing is not part of the laws of physics." Not sure why you put scare quotes around it.
For different value sets and use cases, dear.
as I said, postmodernist lol. I'm coming from the absolutist angle.
I'll admit though that it also functions to tell you about how someone thinks about the universe. But this is true of any question which has one right answer.