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by NoGravitas 296 days ago
The thing holding AI back is that LLMS are not world models, and do not have world models. Being confidently wrong is just a side effect of that. You need a model of the world to be uncertain about. Without one, you have no way to estimate whether your next predicted sentence is true, false, or uncertain; one predicted sentence is as good as another as long as it resembles the training data.
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In other words, just like with autonomous driving, you need real world experience aka general intelligence to be truly useful. Having a model of the world and knowing your place in it is one of the critical parts of intelligence that both autonomous vehicle systems and LLM's are missing.