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by kkfx 366 days ago
The most basic explanation is a video of various people doing the same thing like cooking or using a washing machine: "hey, did you notice, there are countless different kitchens/washing machines/homes but in the end they all do the same thing. Well, LLMs do this, anything you ask is already more or less asked and answered somewhere, it's just a matter of extracting it from the countless small differences, if you ask something not already answered, well, you normally get meaningless results. This means such software might appear human-line but they have no real reasoning".

It's not entirely true but simple enough for a kid. The we can add details showing a classic keyword based search and how we can improve it with a list of synonyms for instance enough to produce some better results than the basic exact matching, showing we can do something more, but the base it's that.

We can conclude: in the future we need to create more and more as human, while machines will apply what we have already created in the real world.