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by terminalcommand 757 days ago
Well it is a bit like satire. You have to explain the universe for an unspecialized GPT, like you would do to a layman. There are custom gpts that come preloaded with that universe explanation.

In addition, do not ask facts to an LLM. Give a list of let's say 1000 kings of a country and then ask give 20 of those.

If you ask 25 kings of some country, you are testing knowledge not intelligence.

I see LLMs like a speaking rubber duckie. The point where I write a successful point is also the point where I understand the problem.

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I can’t believe I’m having to explain this, but the point I’m making isn’t about the content of the list but the numbers.

> like you would do to a layman.

I have never encountered a person so lay that I had to explain that 20 is smaller than 30 and 25.

> The point where I write a successful point is also the point where I understand the problem.

You have demonstrated repeatedly that you don’t know when you have explained a point successfully to an LLM, thus you have no way to evaluate when you have understood a point.

But you seem to firmly believe you did, which could be quite dangerous.

Careful, explain too much and you end up with programming its behaviour, rather than having an intelligent actor learning by itself. Because otherwise one could say a regular computer is intelligent, provided you explain (in code) every single rule of the game.