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Re:Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT by int_19h on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:50PM (#36017596)
This part about "constrained by the attention model" is doing a lot of implicit work here to dodge the question why GPT-4 can verifiably reason about things in text.
Re:Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT by cageface on Saturday May 20, 2023 @11:09PM (#36017695)
It also demonstrably is either flat out wrong about a lot of things or completely invents things that don't exist. It's a random process that sometimes generates content with actual informational value but the randomness is inherent in the algorithm.