alt Hacker NewsAre they, though? I think what LLMs proved is that proving theorems, following instructions and solving complex problems - intelligent behaviour - does not need any kind of understanding, but only ability to recombine things in a stochastic matter. Which basically just means that these things weren't as special as people had thought.
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Legend2440 • today at 5:18 PM
I think you have already decided that LLMs cannot possibly understand. Therefore anything they do must not have required understanding in the first place. It's circular logic.
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We've clearly crossed a threshold at which "stochastic" is no longer doing the work Gebru (and, more importantly, the acolytes of this paper; I shouldn't tar Gebru with what they've done with the work) expected it to do. Lots of important processes are stochastic, including at some levels human thought itself. Advocates who deploy the term "stochastic" seem to believe it impeaches the technology, which is kind of embarrassing to see.