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Remember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lie (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm not a big AI guy but it's really not quite like that, models do NOT contain all the data they were trained on.

Edit: I have no idea what's going on down below this comment

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m not a big AI guy

    we can tell

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The guy above you is right though. So what are you on about?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    what a weird opportunity for someone to burn a throwaway account. not even gonna dig into what you’ve imagined the other guy is right about, given he didn’t post any information of value

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Lemmy is starting to have a huge problem with people creating multiple sockpuppets--probably programmatically generating them, in fact--just to win internet arguments. If this goes on too long you're going to see a really surprising number of sudden downvotes on everything you've said in this conversation, and anyone who agreed with you.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It’ll actually be good if that happens because 1) it could be dealt with here, 2) that could be used to feed something that helps defend against it

    (e: I mean, it’ll be a nuisance, and @self would be driven to drink, but it could still be handled)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    that's a misleading and meaningless way of putting it. if I rip a page out of my textbook and bring it into an exam room, I do not have with me all the data in my textbook. and yet

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It doesn’t do that, either. LLMs retain the linguistic patterns found in textbooks, nothing more. It’s remarkable that they can do so much with this information alone, but it’s still a far cry from genuine intelligence.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah, even setting aside the intelligence claims, I know I'd be feeling a lot more positive about LLMs as a fun theoretical tool if they weren't being sold as personal assistants or search engine replacements etc, which even the apologists here admit they're really really bad at.

    (Also I'd argue "linguistic patterns" is pushing it. "Textual patterns" more like, it's not supposed to have any idea about grammar or even about what "text" is.) (I say "supposed to" because who knows what sort of hacks they're running under the hood.)

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