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Re:If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five mi... by rowanG077 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:11AM (#43058602)
I have not witnessed a car crash and I feel I do understand what it is. Similarly a 16th century person doesn't "Call me on FaceTime" because the words are not known. You could very easily explain the concept to them.
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Re:If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five mi... by myflash13 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:14AM (#43058644)
You would explain the concept to them using analogous experiences they have had. What experience has an LLM had?
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Re:If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five mi... by rowanG077 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:32AM (#43058779)
Maybe you would. That's not a requirement. If humans could only learn from experience and analogues entire fields would be dead. No advanced math for example.

There are a ton of things you can learn without experiencing it yourself and without analogues. For example, car crashes are bad to be in. Even though I have not personally experienced one, nor have I experienced some analogue of it.

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Re:If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five mi... by myflash13 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:41AM (#43058841)
Never experienced pain? Never experienced physically slamming into something? Are you like a toddler who doesn’t yet understand basic physics and object permanence? Then you certainly don’t know what a car crash is.
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