Re:Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Kn...
by williamcotton on Friday March 03, 2023 @08:10AM
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I’m going to refrain from epistemological instruction but I would recommend you start with the Greeks and at least cover Kant and the analytical philosophers that followed.
The “true” way to answer a proposition is not even remotely as simple as you’ve described.
Re:Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Kn...
by unyttigfjelltol on Friday March 03, 2023 @09:29AM
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Well, yes, but ... the fact remains an LLM is not equipped to grapple with truths.
Re:Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Kn...
by goatlover on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:08AM
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Or we could just deflate "truth" for this particular discussion, since what matters is whether predicting the next word works well enough without knowledge of the world. Pragmatically speaking, that's what matters.
So, it's sort of like driving a car based not on a complete map of the area, but a partial map where the missing pieces are filled in from statistical averages of things that appear generally in the world-- but not necessarily in that location. We all may be impressed at how close the predictions come to reality, but the only truly reliable thing is that those predictions, measured with precision, will be wrong. And if you rely on them without verifying them yourself, you might have a serious problem.