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deelaymanyesterday at 4:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

I wonder if that quote is still applicable to systems that are hardwired to learn from decision outcomes and new information.


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advisedwangyesterday at 6:50 PM

LLMs do not learn as they go in the same way people do. People's brains are plastic and immediately adapt to new information but for LLMs:

1. Past decisions and outcomes get into the context window, but that hasn't actually updated any model weights.

2. Your interaction possible eventually gets into the training data for a future LLM. But this is incredibly diluted form of learning.

svieirayesterday at 5:17 PM

What (or who) would have been responsible for the Holodomor if it had been caused by an automated system instead of deliberate human action?