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		thomastjeffery on March 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter You are on a fool's errand: not because of the likelihood you will succeed, but because of the meaning that lies behind any success or failure. GPT is not a person. It doesn't categorize subjects. It models patterns of text. A success would mean that your text prompts left a significant text pattern in the model. A failure would mean that it didn't. Nothing about that has any bearing on logic.

zh3 on March 29, 2023 [–]

Why do you say that? Obviously it's not a person, it's just stats (not even logic).

thomastjeffery on March 29, 2023 | [–]

It's not even statistics: those are made by associating a data point to a scale. That would require explicit association, which is not in any part of the process.

An LLM is 100% inferred patterns.

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