Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models

Re:Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines... by cratermoon on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:50PM (#37620448)

Are you saying that if "Tom Cruise's parent is Mary Lee Pfeiffer" then "Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer the parent of?" is asymmetric? That Mary Lee Pfeiffer is NOT the parent of Tom Cruise?

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Re:Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines... by another_poster on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:55AM (#37623809)

You’re right—both directions are true. But my point is that only the forward (or reverse) direction of a fact may be worth knowing.

We frequently only posses recall for one direction of a fact. Why? One direction may be important (what is Tom Cruise’s favorite color?), but the other direction may not (whose favorite color is green?).

So if we inquire into whether LLMs actually possess intelligence, their asymmetric knowledge seems similar to human knowledge and hence seems consistent with intelligence, rather than problematic.

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Re:Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines... by cratermoon on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:33PM (#37624780)

Allow me to point out other comment threads here suggesting "humans sometimes exhibit unintelligent behavior" isn't an especially convincing argument.

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