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TheLNLtoday at 5:28 AM1 replyview on HN

What are you trying to point out here ? Is there any question you can ask today that is not dependent on some existing knowledge that an AI would have seen ?


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razorbeamztoday at 5:32 AM

The point I'm trying to make is that all LLM output is based on likelihood of one word coming after the next word based on the prompt. That is literally all it's doing.

It's not "thinking." It's not "solving." It's simply stringing words together in a way that appears most likely.

ChatGPT cannot do math. It can only string together words and numbers in a way that can convince an outsider that it can do math.

It's a parlor trick, like Clever Hans [1]. A very impressive parlor trick that is very convincing to people who are not familiar with what it's doing, but a parlor trick nontheless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

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