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Re:Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Kn... by williamcotton on Friday March 03, 2023 @08:10AM (#35009088)
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.

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Re:Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Kn... by unyttigfjelltol on Friday March 03, 2023 @09:29AM (#35010034)
Well, yes, but ... the fact remains an LLM is not equipped to grapple with truths.
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Re:Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Kn... by goatlover on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:08AM (#35011414)
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.
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