• vonxylofon@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I still fail to see how people expect LLMs to reason. It’s like expecting a slice of pizza to reason. That’s just not what it does.

    Although Porsche managed to make a car with the engine in the most idiotic place win literally everything on Earth, so I guess I’m leaving a little possibility that the slice of pizza will outreason GPT 4.

    • Lvxferre
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      2 days ago

      I still fail to see how people expect LLMs to reason. It’s like expecting a slice of pizza to reason. That’s just not what it does.

      This text provides a rather good analogy between people who think that LLMs reason and people who believe in mentalists.

    • Michal@programming.dev
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      2 days ago

      LLMs keep getting better at imitating humans thus for those who don’t know how the technology works, it’ll seem just like it thinks for itself.