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Re:Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of th... by jjk166 on Friday November 15, 2024 @02:50PM (#42150243)
And yet that's exactly how the world actually behaves - see quantum mechanics. Object persistence is just a heuristic that we develop learning on our training data (our interactions with the macroscopic world).

You're inability to recognize high dimension relations between word tokens is no less evidence you lack coherent understanding.

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Re:Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of th... by HarryHirsch on Friday November 15, 2024 @07:21PM (#42152929)
Emmy Noether, paging Emmy Noether, Emmy Noether to the red courtesy phone please!

You can't say that given <conditions>, 1-phenylpropane rearranges to 1,2-diphenylpropane, you cannot pull whole atoms out of thin air for an indefinite amount of time. No human would make such a mistake, but AI does, and what's worse, it is impossible to talk the AI out of its strange reasoning.

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