nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqftargs (nprofile…args) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqsx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qrz6tnw (nprofile…6tnw) It's not that it doesn't resemble human thought so much as that it resembles the laziest form of human thought (but after reading an inhuman amount of input).
I know there are mathematicians trying to develop machine learning tools that go beyond the language model approach. But LLMs can't do mathematics worth a damn *because* they are language models.
Matt McIrvin /
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2025-01-18 19:06:15
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