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.

  • Redacted@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    To hijack your analogy its more akin to me stating a tree is a plant and you saying “So are these” pointing at a forest of plastic Christmas trees.

    I’m pretty curious why you imagine you have so many downvotes?

    • kromem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Because laypeople are very committed to a certain perspective of LLMs right now.

      You should see the downvotes I got a year or two ago explaining immunology research to antivaxxers.

      • Redacted@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Have you ever considered you might be the laypeople?

        Equating a debate about the origin of understanding to antivaxxers…

        You argue like a Trump supporter.