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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's an excellent methaphor for LLMs.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's the Chinese room thought experiment.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hadn't heard about it before (or maybe I did but never looked into it), so I just went and found it in Wikipedia and will be reading all about it.

So thanks for the info!

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

No worries. The person above did a good job explaining it although they kind of mashed it together with the imagery from Plato's allegory of the cave.