New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text | Quanta Magazine
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Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.

I’ve been saying this for about a year since seeing the Othello GPT research, but it’s nice to see more minds changing as the research builds up.

  • kromem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    10 months ago

    No matter what you call it, an LLM will always produces the same output with the same input if it is at the same state.

    You might want to look up the definition of ‘stochastic.’

    • expr@programming.devEnglish
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      10 months ago

      They’re not wrong. Randomness in computing is what we call “pseudo-random” in that it is deterministic provided that you start from same state or “seed”.