[littlestymaar]

> The thinking machines are still babies, whose ideas aren't honed by personal experience; but that will come, in one form or another.

Some machines, maybe. But attention-based LLMs aren't these machines.

[quantummagic]

I'm not sure. If you see what they're doing with feedback already in code generation. The LLM makes a "hallucination", generates the wrong idea, then tests its code only to find out it doesn't compile. And goes on to change its idea, and try again.

[littlestymaar]

A few minutes worth of “personal experience” doesn't really deserve the “personal experience” qualifier.

[quantummagic]

Why not? It's just a minor example of what's possible, to show the general concept has already started.

[littlestymaar]

> show the general concept has already started

The same way a todler creeping is the start of the general concept of space exploration.

[quantummagic]

Yes. And even so, it shows remarkable effectiveness already.

[littlestymaar]

Like a car engine or a combine. The problem isn't the effectiveness of the tool for its purpose, it's the religion around it.