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by Terr_ 369 days ago
> LLM's do not "solve a problem."

Right, or at any rate, the problems they do solve are ones of document-construction, which may sometimes resemble a different problem humans are thinking of... but isn't actually being solved.

For example, an LLM might take the string "2+2=" and give you "2+2=4", but it didn't solve a math problem, it solved a "what would usually get written here" problem.

We ignore this distinction at our peril.

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> Right, or at any rate, the problems they do solve are ones of document-construction, which may sometimes resemble a different problem humans are thinking of... but isn't actually being solved.

This is such a great way to express the actuality in a succinct manner.

Thank you for sharing it.