I guess to make it a bit simpler. Think of the Computer from Star Trek. That would be artificial intelligence. It knows facts. It’s know’s the difference between true and false. It can intelligently learn. OTOH, LLMs are the autocomplete on your phone. But much more advanced. 🧵
It knows that the next words or phrase might be this or that. But it doesn’t know if this or that is the correct, factual value. It’s a mathematical guess. And it’s realllllllly good at guessing when it has a vast majority of humanity’s data in its brain. But it still doesn’t *know* the sky is blue
A little bit shorter - pretend we’re playing a ________ where I leave a word or phrase out. Your job is to guess what that word or phrase is. Did you guess game? Congrats, you’re a human LLM 😉
Unfortunately, I haven't really seen Star Trek, so I don't know its computer. I do know a friend asked some chatbot to write an essay as me about something they were wondering about. And it was... very, very good. Some sentences I wish I'd written.
In other words, you're speaking to how it comes to the result, perhaps under assumption that everyday people care about intention. I don't think they do that much. They don't care if their clothes are ethically made or by slave labor; only if they like the way they look.
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