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soulofmischief04/04/20251 replyview on HN

What are these fundamental properties you speak of? 8 years ago this was all a pipe dream. Are you claiming to know what the next 8 years of transformer development will look like?


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soraminazuki04/04/2025

That LLMs are by definition models of human speech and have no cognitive capabilities. There is no sound logic behind what LLMs spit out, and will stay that way because it merely mimics its training data. No amount of vague future transformers will transform away how the underlying technology works.

But let's say we have something more than an LLM, that still wouldn't make natural languages a good replacement for programming languages. This is because natural languages are, as the article mentions, imprecise. It just isn't a good tool. And no, transformers can't change how languages work. It can only "recontextualize," or as some people might call it, "hallucinate."

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