LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds

Re:LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind stud... by nomel on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:59AM (#37828949)

I see all of this as implementation details of a single biological system that exhibits "thought", not a definition of "thought".

> It’s just by no means “the same.”

The implementation is not the same. Everyone agrees with that. The concept being compared is "thought", not "implementation of thought". Maybe I'm lost.

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Re:LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind stud... by RC_ITR on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:28PM (#37840548)

I'm just saying that "thinking" is a well-defined class of related things that only animals do.

I would argue expanding the definition to include the kind of things that semiconductors do really dilutes the meaning of "thinking" to be near meaningless.

Maybe to put it succinctly - no computer has ever done anything without a human input (even if it's millions of layers abstracted), but thinking just happens spontaneously.

If that's not a sufficient condition to differentiate 'thinking' from 'calculating,' then IDK what 'thinking' even means then.

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