Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by grey-area 9 days ago
It generates text from a prompt and weights. This is not an oversimplification, this is what it does. It doesn’t know what is good and what is not or a quality holiday for person x is.

Humans do not in fact do that, they reason based on a mix of past experience and emotion, consider what is good and what is not and then answer. These are completely different processes.

The difference becomes apparent when an LlM makes a mistake for example and then apologises obsequiously and repeats the mistake, or apologises and makes a different mistake. Or when they fail to count letters (one of many flaws monkey-patched by calling tools).

They don’t reason they don’t evaluate and they can’t count. This is so so far from human intelligence.