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0 pointsrazorbeamz3mo ago0 comments

Yes, ChatGPT and friends are essentially the same thing as the predictive text keyboard on your phone, but scaled up and trained on more data.

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XenophileJKO3mo ago· 2 in thread

So this idea that they replay "text" they saw before is kind of wrong fundamentally. They replay "abstract concepts of varied conceptual levels".

razorbeamzOP3mo ago

The important point I'm trying to reinforce is that LLMs are not capable of calculation. They can give an answer based on the fact that they have seen lots of calculations and their results, but they cannot actually perform mathematical functions.

XenophileJKO3mo ago

That is a pretty bold assertion for a meatball of chemical and electrical potentials to make.

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