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Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines (quandyfactory.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

we know the meanings of the words we use.

Uh, but we don't? Not really. People use the wrong words all the time and each person's definition (i.e., encoding) is slightly different. We mimic phrases and structures we've heard to sound smarter and forge on with uncertain statements because frequently they go unchallenged or simply aren't important.

We're more structurally complex than a LLM, but we fool ourselves in thinking we're somehow uniquely thoughtful and reliable.