Monday, March 13, 2023

The octopus paper

дамочка выдумала octopus experiment вместо Chinese room experiment. и решила, что она теперь главная:
No, you shouldn’t use an LLM to “unredact” the Mueller Report; no, an LLM cannot meaningfully testify in the U.S. Senate; no, chatbots cannot “develop a near-precise understanding of the person on the other end.”

Please do not conflate word form and meaning. Mind your own credulity.
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This leaves few people with the expertise and authority to say, “Wait, why are these companies blurring the distinction between what is human and what’s a language model? Is this what we want?”

The filtering leads to its own issues. - достаточно прочесть этот абзац...

see also To Dissect an Octopus: Making Sense of the Form/Meaning Debate

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