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Re:Baiting the Bots by og_kalu on Sunday September 08, 2024 @10:40AM (#41480672)
>LLMs aren’t capable of “comprehending” anything. They never “know” what they are outputting, they’re simply really good at being lucky.

The mental gymnastics people will go through to discount LLMs is wild. This does not even make any sense.

"really good at being lucky". What does that even mean ?

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Re:Baiting the Bots by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Sunday September 08, 2024 @12:58PM (#41481488)
> "really good at being lucky". What does that even mean ?

They mean good at being lucky the way card counters playing 21 are good at being lucky.

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Re:Baiting the Bots by og_kalu on Sunday September 08, 2024 @04:49PM (#41483086)
There is almost nothing 'lucky' about how good those kind of players are.
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