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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (46 children)

That bit about how it turns out they aren't actually just predicting the next word is crazy and kinda blows the whole "It's just a fancy text auto-complete" argument out of the water IMO

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Predicting the next word vs predicting a word in the middle and then predicting backwards are not hugely different things. It's still predicting parts of the passage based solely on other parts of the passage.

Compared to a human who forms an abstract thought and then translates that thought into words. Which words I use has little to do with which other words I've used except to make sure I'm following the rules of grammar.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Compared to a human who forms an abstract thought and then translates that thought into words. Which words I use has little to do with which other words I’ve used except to make sure I’m following the rules of grammar.

Interesting that...

Anthropic also found, among other things, that Claude "sometimes thinks in a conceptual space that is shared between languages, suggesting it has a kind of universal 'language of thought'."

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago

wow an AI researcher over hyping his own product. he's just waxing poetic .

we don't even have a good sense of what thought IS, please tell Claude to call the philosophers because apparently he's figured out consciousness

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