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0 pointsscotty793y ago0 comments

It's a language model not a knowledge model. As long as it produces the language it's by definition correct.

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I'm not entirely sure that's as simple of a distinction as you might suppose. Language is more than grammar and vocabulary. Knowing and speaking truth have quite the overlap.

More specifically, without language, can you know that someone else knows anything?

scotty79OP3y ago

> Language is more than grammar and vocabulary. Knowing and speaking truth have quite the overlap.

But speaking the truth is just minor and rare application of the language.

> More specifically, without language, can you know that someone else knows anything?

Honestly, just ask them to show you math. If they don't have any math they probably don't have any true knowledge. The only other form of knowledge is a citation.

Language and truth are orthogonal.

nwienert3y ago

Just like the model, you’re technically correct but missing the point. No one cares if it’s good at generating nonsense, so the metric were all measuring by is truth not language. At least if we’re staying on context here and debating the usefulness of these things in regards to search.

So as a product, that’s the game it’s playing and failing at. It’s unhelpfully pedantic to try and steer into technicalities.

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SergeAx3y ago

I tell you more: language is an instrument of telling lies. Truth doesn't need to and actually cannot be spoken, it manifests itself as is. Lao Tzu: "He who knows, does not speak, and he who speaks does not know". Meaning: any truth put into words becomes a lie.

dralley3y ago

Then maybe marketing it alongside a search engine is a bad idea?

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