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

    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.