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by JeremyNT 1186 days ago
I think this is where things can get kind of interesting, because future integrations of ChatGPT can farm the "real work" out to systems and tools which do have better models of the specific query.

The LLM approach may not be able to replicate the "knowledge" your calculator has, but it (or some pre/postprocessor) may be able to recognize that a given question is actually something a calculator can answer concretely, and then it can delegate the computation to traditional software that really does "know" how to answer the question.
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snickerbockers 1186 days ago
That would work, but it seems antithetical to AI to have to treat every operation as a special case like that. They want GPT to be able to write computer programs but it'll never be able to work completely independent of humans if every possible domain needs its own plugin to be reliable.
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JeremyNT 1185 days ago
I know lots of the SV VC oligarch cult just wants to race forward and create something like AGI that will help them conquer the world and achieve immortality somehow, but hopefully this remains in the realm of science fiction. As RMS says, LLMs at least don't seem to be "it" no matter how much user generated data they ingest, because they do have these inherent limitations.

The far more practical (profitable) outcome for what they currently built is to just make a useful tool, a "smarter" wolfram alpha, and that can be iterated upon by delegating relevant operations to specific techniques that are more applicable to the question at hand.

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Gud 1186 days ago
Why though? Our brains have different processing centers. Why would it be different for a general purpose A.I?
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snickerbockers 1186 days ago
Because of you have a special case plug-in for everything then the AI is just a natural language processor, and there's no deep learning for the actual functionality.

>Our brains have different processing centers.

Uhh, no they don't? Did you know everything you know now about math when you were born, and are you also incapable of learning new things about math? Because that's how the wolfram plug-in works.

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