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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

Did someone not know this like, pretty much from day one?

Not the idiot executives that blew all their budget on AI and made up for it with mass layoffs - the people interested in it. Was that not clear that there was no “reasoning” going on?

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, two responses I have seen to the claim that LLMs are not reasoning are:

  1. we are all just stochastic parrots lmao
  2. maybe intelligence is an emergent ability that will show up eventually (disregard the inability to falsify this and the categorical nonsense that is our definition of "emergent").

So I think this research is useful as a response to these, although I think "fuck off, promptfondler" is pretty good too.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

Well are we not stochastic parrots then? Isn't this a philosophical, rhetorical and equally unfalsifiable question to answer also?

[-] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 weeks ago

No, there's an actual paper where that term originated that goes into great deal explaining what it means and what it applies to. It answers those questions and addresses potential objections people might respond with.

There's no need for--and, frankly, nothing interesting about--"but, what is truth, really?" vibes-based takes on the term.

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