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[–] [email protected] 178 points 10 months ago (57 children)

Friendly reminder that your predictive text, while very compelling, is not alive.

It's not a mind.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (16 children)

While it is not alive, whether it is a mind is not a clear cut. It can be called kind of a mind, a mind different of that of human.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Unless you want to call your predictive text on your keyboard a mind you really can't call an LLM a mind. It is nothing more than a linear progression from that. Mathematically proven to not show any form of emergent behavior.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No such thing has been "mathematically proven." The emergent behavior of ML models is their notable characteristic. The whole point is that their ability to do anything is emergent behavior.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Here's a white paper explicitly proving:

  1. No emergent properties (illusory due to bad measures)
  2. Predictable linear progress with model size

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004

The field changes fast, I understand it is hard to keep up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, if you define "emergent abilities" just so. It's obvious from context that this is not what I described.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Their paper uses industry standard definitions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Their paper uses terminology that makes sense in context. It's not a definition of "emergent behavior."

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