Re:Microsoft and OpenAI's Close Partnership Shows Signs of F...
by usaar333 on Friday October 18, 2024 @01:36PM
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https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g...
This essay has aged extremely well.
Re:Microsoft and OpenAI's Close Partnership Shows Signs of F...
by dylan604 on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:40PM
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> Some AI advocate says: humans are just predicting the next token probabilistically, fight me.
We've all had conversations with humans that are always jumping to complete your sentence assuming they know what your about to say and don't quite guess correctly. So AI evangelists are saying it's no worse than humans as their proof. I kind of like their logic. They never claimed to have built HAL /s
I say: it's not human-like intelligence, it's just predicting the next token probabilistically.
Some AI advocate says: humans are just predicting the next token probabilistically, fight me.
The problem here is that "predicting the next token probabilistically" is a way of framing any kind of cleverness, up to and including magical, impossible omniscience. That doesn't mean it's the way every kind of cleverness is actually done, or could realistically be done. And it has to be the correct next token, where all the details of what's actually required are buried in that term "correct", and sometimes it literally means the same as "likely", and other times that just produces a reasonable, excusable, intelligence-esque effort.