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by wizzwizz4 14 days ago
LLMs are neither of those. They're quite good at pretending they understand what you mean, but they don't. That's why they can't execute: they're mimicking the form, not the substance, and then we see the form and anthropomorphise them in our minds.
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That's a lot of assertions with no real argument to back it up.
Any one of those "hey, can you count to 100 for me?" type shorts should be enough..
I've repeated the argument over and over since the GPT-2 days, when I derived it theoretically by inspecting the architecture of the model. I am now fatigued, and enough other people have taken up similar arguments – some developed half-way to a mathematical proof – that I no longer feel the obligation to keep repeating myself.
You could post a link.