Not even that. LLMs have no concept of meaning or understanding. What they do in essence is space filling based on previously trained patterns.
Like showing a bunch of shapes to someone, then drawing a few lines and asking them to complete the shape. And all the shapes are lamp posts but you haven’t told them that and they have no idea what a lamp post is. They will just produce results like the shapes you’ve shown them, which generally end up looking like lamp posts.
Except the “shape” in this case is a sentence or poem or self insert erotic fan fiction, none of which an LLM “understands”, it just matches the shape of what’s been written so far with previous patterns and extrapolates.
I severely hope that people aren’t using LLM-AI to do reasoning tasks. I appreciate that I am likely wrong, but LLMs are neither the totality or the pinnacle of AI tech. I don’t think we are meaningfully closer to AGI than we were before LLMs blew up.
DAE people are really stupid? 50% of all people are dumber than average, you know. Heh. NoW jUsT tHinK abOuT hOw dUmb tHe AverAgE PeRsoN iS. Maybe that’s why they can’t get my 5-shot venti caramel latte made with steamed whipped cream right. *cough* Where is my adderall.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/12/apples-study-proves-that-llm-based-ai-models-are-flawed-because-they-cannot-reason
I mean… duh? The purpose of an LLM is to map words to meanings… to derive what a human intends from what they say. That’s it. That’s all.
It’s not a logic tool or a fact regurgitator. It’s a context interpretation engine.
The real flaw is that people expect that because it can sometimes (more than past attempts) understand what you mean, it is capable of reasoning.
Not even that. LLMs have no concept of meaning or understanding. What they do in essence is space filling based on previously trained patterns.
Like showing a bunch of shapes to someone, then drawing a few lines and asking them to complete the shape. And all the shapes are lamp posts but you haven’t told them that and they have no idea what a lamp post is. They will just produce results like the shapes you’ve shown them, which generally end up looking like lamp posts.
Except the “shape” in this case is a sentence or poem or self insert erotic fan fiction, none of which an LLM “understands”, it just matches the shape of what’s been written so far with previous patterns and extrapolates.
plenty of people can’t reason either. the current state of AI is closer to us than we’d like to admit.
I severely hope that people aren’t using LLM-AI to do reasoning tasks. I appreciate that I am likely wrong, but LLMs are neither the totality or the pinnacle of AI tech. I don’t think we are meaningfully closer to AGI than we were before LLMs blew up.
I wouldn’t put those people in charge of anything important, either.
they already are
DAE people are really stupid? 50% of all people are dumber than average, you know. Heh. NoW jUsT tHinK abOuT hOw dUmb tHe AverAgE PeRsoN iS. Maybe that’s why they can’t get my 5-shot venti caramel latte made with steamed whipped cream right. *cough* Where is my adderall.