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Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines (quandyfactory.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No; they do exactly what they were designed to do

Are we arguing semantics here?

https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/emergence https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.07682.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.15004.pdf

I could be wrong, obviously, but I don't think this is as straightforward or settled as you are suggesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Lol... come on. Your second source disagrees with your assertion:

Via all three analyses, we provide evidence that alleged emergent abilities evaporate with different metrics or with better statistics, and may not be a fundamental property of scaling AI models.

You are wrong and it is quite settled. Read more, including the very sources you're trying to recommend others read.