Re:The Geometry of Truth: Do LLM's Know True and False
by alphablended on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:45AM
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You are moving away from the topic, which is the question of whether AIs know true and false.
Your first statement was that "they don't know true and false, because they don't know anything in the cognitive sense of using innate emotional and logical reasoning (faulty or not) to come to a self-directed conclusion of their own."
You haven't yet proved that assertion.
Re:The Geometry of Truth: Do LLM's Know True and False
by ajuc on Saturday October 21, 2023 @09:03AM
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I don't think consciousness is well defined, nor that it's required for producing true statements nor for distinguishing them from false statements.
I can write a program that will print out infinite number of no repeating true statements.
GPT doesn't sit there pondering consciousness and deciding, emotionally, that it thinks it's bullshit. It most certainly doesn't then decide, on its own volition, to go out into the web and comment this to others for the sake of debating them.
It doesn't sit there contemplating anything by its own volition unless its asked to. Regardless of what consciousness really is at its heart (I admit that we still don't fully know), it's a distinct self-motivated thing that we can see in our human selves and which is seen in no LLM except as a simulation produced by specific prompts.