Readit News>How can you so confidently proclaim that?
Do you know why they're called 'models' by chance?
They're statistical, weighted models. They use statistical weights to predict the next token.
They don't think. They don't reason. Math, weights, and turtles all the way down. Calling anything an LLM does "thinking" or "reasoning" is incorrect. Calling any of this "AI" is even worse.
If they are conditioned on a large data set that includes lots of examples of the result of people thinking, what they produce will look sort of like the results of thinking, but then if they were conditioned on a large data set of people repeating the same seven knock knock jokes over and over and over in some complex pattern (e.g. every third time, in French), what they produced will look like that, and nothing like thinking.
Failing to recognize this is going to get someone killed, if it hasn't already.
How can you so confidently proclaim that? Hinton and Ilya Sutskever certainly seem to think that LLMs do think. I'm not saying that you should accept what they say blindly due to their authority in the field, but their opinions should give your confidence some pause at least.
That is almost exactly what they are and what you should treat them as.
A lossy compressed corpus of publicly available information with a weight of randomness. The most fervent skeptics like to call LLMs "autocorrect on steroids" and they are not really wrong.
You say, "explaining away the increasing performance" as though that was a good faith representation of arguments made against LLMs, or even this specific article. Questionong the self-congragulatory nature of these businesses is perfectly reasonable.
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Not sure how you can say this so confidently. Many would argue they're already pretty close, at least on a short time horizon.
On a side note.. ya’ll must be prompt wizards if you can actually use the LLM code.
I use it for debugging sometimes to get an idea, or a quick sketch up of an UI.
As for actual code.. the code it writes is a huge mess of spaghetti code, overly verbose, with serious performance and security risks, and complete misunderstanding of pretty much every design pattern I give it..