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by JieJie 1176 days ago
“I think the right way to think of the models we create is as a reasoning engine, not a fact database. They can also act as a fact database, but that’s not really what is special about them.” —Sam Altman

Rebecca Jarvis interviews Sam Altman for ABC News Rebecca Jarvis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=540vzMlf-54

(I don't think this contradicts what you said.)

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From his interview with Lex Friedman:

Quoting what he says [0][1]:

> You know, a funny thing about the way we're training these models is I suspect too much of the like processing power for lack of a better word is going into using the models as a database instead of using the model as a reasoning engine. The thing that's really amazing about the system is that it, for some definition of reasoning, and we could of course quibble about it and there's plenty for which definitions this wouldn't be accurate. But for some definition it can do some kind of reasoning. And, you know, maybe like the scholars and the experts and like the armchair quarterbacks on Twitter would say, no, it can't. You're misusing the word, you know, whatever, whatever. But I think most people who have used the system would say, okay, it's doing something in this direction. And I think that's remarkable. And the thing that's most exciting and somehow out of ingesting human knowledge, it's coming up with this reasoning capability. However, we're gonna talk about that. Now, in some senses, I think that will be additive to human wisdom.

[0] https://steno.ai/lex-fridman-podcast-10/367-sam-altman-opena...

[1] https://youtu.be/L_Guz73e6fw?t=828