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Re:GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact P... by shanebellone on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:11AM (#35229909)
"I keep reading these opinions that LLMs are just doing some advanced form of copy paste. Actually, we don't know what they are doing. Are they actually doing some form of modelling and abstraction? Seems likely to me."

This is exactly the problem with AI. For business or government, the answer is as important as the methodology employed. A black box does not work for the majority of use cases.

Until it can show its work, it's a sideshow.

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Re:GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact P... by BurningFrog on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:17AM (#35230432)
Humans are also "black boxes" we don't fully understand. It's worked pretty well.
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Re:GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact P... by shanebellone on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:39AM (#35230635)
This is a shallow counterargument that entirely misses the point.
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Re:GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact P... by BurningFrog on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:26AM (#35231951)
This is not even an argument, only a disagreement.
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Re:GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact P... by shanebellone on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:01PM (#35233565)
"This is not even an argument, only a disagreement."

It's a straw man.

The need for transparency in process is known, documented, and undisputed. Your comment has no relevance. My brain might be a black box, but I can still communicate and/or document the specifics of a process.

Can [insert your preferred model] do that? Didn't think so.

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Re:GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact P... by tracker1 on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:06AM (#35232568)
Given the changes in health over the past century and a half as we've adopted "science" into food, I'm not sure that I agree.
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Re:GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact P... by auggierose on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:24AM (#35231137)
Yes, in many situations it is important that we get AIs to explain how they came up with a result, and that we are confident in the correctness of the explanation. That is probably the most interesting thing you can work on now. Is that a sideshow? I don't think so, although I wouldn't mind that at all.
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