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[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (75 children)

[GPT-4] is fed, like, a line of text from some source, but with the last word missing. It guesses what the last word might be, and then it gets told whether or not it got it right so it can adjust its internal math.

GPT-4 cannot alter its weights once it has been trained so this is just factually wrong.

“It had to build, in its internal wirings and all its software neurons, some understanding of what an egg is - In other words, to get the next word right, it had to become intelligent. It’s quite a thought. It started with nothing. We jammed huge oceans of text through it, and it just wired itself into intelligence, just by being trained to do this one stupid thing.”

LLMs are really cool and very useful, don't get me wrong. But people get excited by what they seem to do and lose sight of what they actually can do. They are not intelligent. They create text based on inputs. That is not what intelligence is, unless you have an extremely dismal view of intelligence that humans are text creation machines with no thoughts, no feelings, no desires, no ability to plan... basically, no internal world at all.

An LLM is an algorithm, not an intelligence.

[–] Bye@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It’s a state machine and so are we. If it can have the ability to alter itself the way we do, I don’t see how we are any different.

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It can't; again the model does not and cannot change once it's been generated.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 4 points 1 year ago

And you really don't want it to either. That could cause all sorts of privacy issues if you accidentally include private information in the conversation - and as far as I have heard it is harder to remove information from LLMs than it is to "add" information to it.

Also Microsoft's Tay could adapt itself based on conversations and that went real well...

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