alt Hacker NewsA question for those who think LLM’s are the path to artificial intelligence: if a large language model trained on pre-1913 data is a window into the past, how is a large language model trained on pre-2025 data not effectively the same thing?
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block_dagger • yesterday at 12:22 AM
Counter question: how does a training set, representing a window into the past, differ from your own experience as an intelligent entity? Are you able to see into the future? How?
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ex-aws-dude • yesterday at 12:23 AM
A human brain is a window to the person's past?
You're a human intelligence with knowledge of the past - assuming you were alive at the time, could you tell me (without consulting external resources) what exactly happened between arriving at an airport and boarding a plane in the year 2000? What about 2002?
Neither human memory nor LLM learning creates perfect snapshots of past information without the contamination of what came later.