Re:Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of th...
by krapp on Friday November 15, 2024 @02:05PM
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The coherence comes from the relationship between the virtual (mapped) data and the real data it represents (territory), and the ability of the map to correctly predict the attributes of the territory.
Human perception is coherent because it tends to accurately model the physical world from which it's constructed, by means of sensory input and memory, and if this were not the case, we would have gone extinct as a species ages ago. While it is true that the model of human perception isn't perfect, it would be incorrect to call it incoherent to the same or similar degree as the incoherence demostrated by LLMs, as jmole's earlier comment implies.
Even if one must consider the model of human perception incoherent, one must also consider it vastly more coherent than whatever LLMs model reality on, if anything.
Human perception is coherent because it tends to accurately model the physical world from which it's constructed, by means of sensory input and memory, and if this were not the case, we would have gone extinct as a species ages ago. While it is true that the model of human perception isn't perfect, it would be incorrect to call it incoherent to the same or similar degree as the incoherence demostrated by LLMs, as jmole's earlier comment implies.
Even if one must consider the model of human perception incoherent, one must also consider it vastly more coherent than whatever LLMs model reality on, if anything.