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Re:OpenAI Codex by nxmnxm99 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @08:42AM (#28141308)
Humans (technologists) in particular are awful at extrapolating. Transformers being able to combine rudimentary, defined "concepts" and scaling that into human intelligence makes about as much sense as extrapolating a XOR gate or an if-else statement "scaling" to human intelligence.

I'm of the "human beings are much more than big linear algebra functions slapped on top of a large processor" crowd.

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Re:OpenAI Codex by marto1 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:35PM (#28159133)
To play devils's advocate: well, it might just very well turn out that what most humans are currently engaged in can very well turn out to be reducible to "big linear algebra functions slapped on top of a large processor".

And then the part about "being just like humans" will be the marketing gravy train that funds the operation.

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