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by lordlimecat 1215 days ago
It really doesn't. It's a language model. Literally every webpage on this topic mentions that.

This is why it will happily tell you that a director directed a movie before they were born, and agree with you when you point that out, and continue to insist that he did it. There is no ability to synthesize and apply new information to a line of reasoning, because the chain of thought is an illusion wrought by a statistical language model.

Its purpose is to be semantically correct, not to reason.

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show me Reason that is not axiomatically embedded in language.

for anything else, how can you possibly know it's not operating on a (massively) complex statistical model? are you gonna ask it? if you do science on it to discover it's complexity, why is the computationally shorter method to achieve the same results any worse or less authentic?

it's like saying the closed form solution of a summation isn't "really" a summation either

finally, you are letting the word "semantically" do a lot of work for you.