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LLM Inevitabilism

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1613 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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visarga ◴[15 Jul 25 05:21 UTC] No.44568045[source]▶
> I’m certainly not convinced that they’re the future I want. But what I’m most certain of is that we have choices about what our future should look like, and how we choose to use machines to build it.

While I must admit we have some choice here, it is limited. No matter what, there will be models of language, we know how they work, there is no turning back from it.

We might wish many things but one thing we can't do is to revert time to a moment when these discoveries did not exist.

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1. th0ma5 ◴[15 Jul 25 16:09 UTC] No.44572646[source]▶
We have no idea how they work. We know the training making a model and generating things from it, but the thing we want from it being an Oracle or something, we have no idea how that works at the level of the specific knowledge it generates. And when we dig into it doesn't reveal anything very interesting. The premise of put everything digital in a pile and see if makes something like a god is a neat idea, but the god is literally playing dice.