[hcfman]

That’s a little black and white though. It’s ruling out that the AI could make a pretty good guess as to what you likely wanted to convey. If it gets that right, then you didn’t need to understand it nearly much.

When I observe its reasoning I see it doing this all the time.

[ulrikrasmussen]

Sure, but at that point it hardly makes sense to discuss any of the details of the implementation since we are just treating the LLM as a black box. For all we know, it could be maintaining its own specialized programming language made just for the application.

[geraneum]

How does the AI guess?

[antonvs]

Using statistics. They’re probably better at it than we are.

[geraneum]

Stata is better in statistics than we are. Why doesn’t that produce guesses?