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pelario | 1 year ago

Despite the appearance, they do: despite the training, neurons, transformers and all, ultimately it is a program running in a turing machine.

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empath75|1 year ago

Well, if you break everything down to the lowest level of how the brain works, then so do humans. But I think there's a relevant higher level of abstraction in which it isn't -- it's probabilistic and as much intuition as anything else.

aljarry|1 year ago

But it is only a program computing numbers. The code itself has nothing to do with the reasoning capabilities of the model.

xpe|1 year ago

Nothing to do with it? You certainly don’t mean that. The software running an LLM is causally involved.

Perhaps you can explain your point in a different way?

Related: would you claim that the physics of neurons has nothing to do with human intelligence? Certainly not.

You might be hinting at something else: perhaps different levels of explanation and/or prediction. These topics are covered extensively by many thinkers.

Such levels of explanation are constructs used by agents to make sense of phenomena. These explanations are not causal; they are interpretative.