Language Models in Plato's Cave
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Language Models in Plato's Cave
All AI Models Might Be The Same
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LLMs are surely not going to replace college or magazines or middle managers. But they do offer those and other domains a new instrument—that’s really the right word for it—with which to play with an unfathomable quantity of textual material.
Ian Bogost • ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think
LLMs, says Chollet, irrespective of their size, are limited in their ability to solve problems that require recombining what they have learnt to tackle new tasks. “LLMs cannot truly adapt to novelty because they have no ability to basically take their knowledge and then do a fairly sophisticated recombination of that knowledge on the fly to adapt t... See more
Anil Ananthaswamy • How close is AI to human-level intelligence?
Understanding is beyond GPT-3’s reach because understanding cannot occur in an isolated behavior, no matter how clever. Understanding is not an act but a labor. Labor is entirely irrelevant to a computational model that has no history or trajectory; a tool that endlessly simulates meaning anew from a pool of data untethered to its previous efforts.... See more