• dr_catman@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This is… really not true at all.

    LLMs differ from humans in a very very important way when it comes to language: we know the meanings of the words we use. LLMs do not “know” things, are unconcerned with “meanings”, and thus cannot be said to be “using” words in any meaningful way.

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      1 year ago

      we know the meanings of the words we use.

      Uh, but we don’t? Not really. People use the wrong words all the time and each person’s definition (i.e., encoding) is slightly different. We mimic phrases and structures we’ve heard to sound smarter and forge on with uncertain statements because frequently they go unchallenged or simply aren’t important.

      We’re more structurally complex than a LLM, but we fool ourselves in thinking we’re somehow uniquely thoughtful and reliable.