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Re:OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now by hackinthebochs on Friday November 22, 2024 @08:29AM (#42213681)
Then say "no one has demonstrated that LLMs can reason" instead of "LLMs can't reason, they're just token predictors". At least that would be intellectually honest.
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Re:OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now by Xelynega on Friday November 22, 2024 @11:59AM (#42215443)
By that logic isn't it "intellectually dishonest" to say "dowsing rods don't work" if the only evidence we have is examples of them not working?
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Re:OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now by hackinthebochs on Friday November 22, 2024 @12:13PM (#42215571)
Not really. We know enough about how the world to know that dowsing rods have no plausible mechanism of action. We do not know enough about intelligence/reasoning or how brains work to know that LLMs definitely aren't doing anything resembling that.
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