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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by thfuran on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:11PM (#35882818)
You're proposing that statistics is intelligent?
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by hypertele-Xii on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:18PM (#35882869)
You're proposing that evolution is statistics?
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by thfuran on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:36PM (#35882989)
Basically, yeah.
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by 8bitsrule on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @11:29PM (#35883296)
Notable that the people who saw the first automatons argued whether they were alive.
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by olalonde on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:10AM (#35883861)
What do you mean by that? And do you have a source?
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by int_19h on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:32AM (#35884722)
People also argued that animals are mere automatons, that all their observable behavior is basically scripted, and that humans shouldn't empathize with them on those grounds. That's how vivisection etc used to be justified since at least Descartes.
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