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Link to the actual article:
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
No shit, that's how LLMs work.
Was this not already common sense?
It is important to always remember that the vast majority of people are stupid.
I really don't want to give a billion dollar corporation credit for "proving" something a shit ton of people have been saying this whole time.
The only people saying this was true AI was the people who work for these companies and the investors who fell for it.
Most of the "big uses" have been literal mechanical Turks with a human pretending to be a program.
It's just when capitalism drives science, it only matters what the wealthy say, and apple is very very wealthy
There’s nothing wrong with scientifically proving something that’s commonly known. In fact, that’s an important duty of science, even if it’s not a glamorous one.
You aren’t wrong by in this case, nothing needs to be proven by a 3rd party since anyone recently in programming knows how LLMs works. It’s factual.
LLMs are famously NOT understood, even by the scientists creating them. We’re still learning how they process information.
Moreover, we most definitely don’t know how human intelligence works, or how close/far we are to replicating it. I suspect we’ll be really disappointed by the human mind once we figure out what the fundamentals of intelligence are.
They most definitely are understood. The basics of what they’re doing doesn’t change. Garbage in, garbage out.
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