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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by satvikpendem on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @10:54AM (#44724181)
This doesn't make sense thermodynamically because models are far smaller than the training data they purport to hold and recall, so there must be some level of "understanding" going on. Whether that's the same as human understanding is a different matter.
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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by Eggpants on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @01:37PM (#44726179)
It’s a lossy text compression technique. It’s clever applied statistics. Basically an advanced association rules algorithm which has been around for decades but modified to consider order and relative positions.

There is no understanding, regardless of the wants of all the capital investors in this domain.

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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by simonw on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:18PM (#44726653)
I don't care if it can "understand" anything, as long as I can use it to achieve useful things.
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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by Eggpants on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:26PM (#44726747)
“useful things“ like poorly drawing birds on bikes? ;)

(I have much respect for what you have done and are currently doing, but you did walk right into that one)

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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by msephton on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:43PM (#44729114)
The pelican on a bicycle is a very useful test.
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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by dfedbeef on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @08:28AM (#44733323)
Yeah what if you need a drawing of a pelican on a bicycle
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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @05:24PM (#44728418)
It’s a lossy text compression technique.

That is a much, much bigger deal than you make it sound like.

Compression may, in fact, be all we need. For that matter, it may be all there is.

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