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0 pointsCamperBob23y ago0 comments

It has metaphorical(ly) written its answers on its arm.

See GPT4's reply to pclmulqdq at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35648144 .

That's not a response from someone who wrote the answers on the inside of their elbow before coming to class. That's genuine inductive reasoning at a level you wouldn't get from quite a few real, live human students. GPT4 is using its general knowledge to speculate on the answer to a specific question that has possibly never been asked before, certainly not in those particular words.

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quickthrower23y ago· 2 in thread

It is hard to tell what is really happening. At some level though, it is deep reasoning by humans, turned into intelligent text, and run through a language model. If you fed the model garbage it would spit out garbage. Unlike a human child who tends to know when you are lying to them.

CamperBob2OP3y ago

If you fed the model garbage it would spit out garbage.

(Shrug) Exactly the same as with a human child.

Unlike a human child who tends to know when you are lying to them.

LOL. If that were true, it might have saved Fox News $800 million. Nobody would bother lying, either to children or to adults, if it didn't work as well as it does.

BlackSwanMan3y ago

There's literally millions of kids who think a fat man with a beard delivers them presidents once a year if they're nice.

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