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zmgsabstyesterday at 9:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Your criticism of LLMs also applies to humans and so implies humans don’t possess knowledge.


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JanNashyesterday at 9:58 PM

Humans can learn texts by heart, even lots of text (I have some expertise on that, having studied opera singing). They can reproduce these texts accurately, deterministically and repeatably. An LLM is a statistical machine. It does not know any text by heart and it is by pure chance that it sometimes reproduces existing texts verbatim.

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