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by trabant00 1206 days ago
> understanding based on principles is no longer required

It very much still is if you care about getting the right answer. If you only care about getting convincing sounding bullshit you just ask the "AI".

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Language models certainly generate their fair share of bullshit. But then, they are actually trained on bullshit - raw human output, much of it informal - so as a first step, it is a sign of great success.

By the time language models don't ever generate bullshit they will have succeeded in understanding and communicating at a level most or all of us will never achieve.

But most models, including photoshopping detection, are not language models. Their job is to perform some well defined problem (classification, pattern recognition, relationship generalization, etc.) better than alternative methods. They perform, or they don't. There isn't room for bullshit.