What Happens When People Don't Understand How AI Works

Re:What Happens When People Don't Understand How AI Works by jenadine on Sunday June 08, 2025 @06:45PM (#44219950)

> produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another

What does "thinking" even mean? It turns out that some intelligence can emerge from this stochastic process. LLM can do math and can play chess despite not trained for it. Is that not thinking?

Also, could it be possible that are our brains do the same: generating muscle output or spoken output somehow based on our senses and some "context" stored in our neural network.

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Re:What Happens When People Don't Understand How AI Works by cwillu on Monday June 09, 2025 @10:24AM (#44224840)

I'm sympathetic to this line of reasoning, but “LLM can play chess” is overstating things, and “despite not being trained for it” is understating how many chess games and books would be in the training set of any LLM.

While it's been a few months since I've tested, the last time I tested the reasoning on a game for which very little data is available in book or online text, I was rather underwhelmed with openai's performance.

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