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I’m old, but at the end of AI research has to be some product we value. I am not sure where it is going beyond doing fake videos of important people saying ridiculous things. Maybe a robot arm that has perfected Five Finger Mary might have some universal appeal but past that I think they are reaching.
I would say, based solely on my (admittedly limited) understanding of the basics of digital computers, that some people who should have bloody well known better have just realized that this LLM software is -never- going to do what they thought it could. Now they are moving to limit the damage they have invited by buying into their own hype.
Huzzah.
Now, this is not to say that LLMs have no uses, or that they can’t make money. There will be stuff they can do. Navigating messy environments appears to be one of those things, so robots are going to get a lot smarter.
But, LLMs are -never- going to do all the things their inventors hoped for.
A minor example thought experiment. If A=B, and B=C, then A=C. Humans -understand- this statement. They can also derive this statement by observation, a generalization that describes something from the real world.
Some very powerful Silicon Valley people thought that LLMs would be able to do that too, but they can’t. And they never will. They can state it, they can use it as a rule in an algorithm, they can reproduce it by scanning text, but they can’t understand it. It is just a text string, no different than “Mary had a little lamb.”
I view this as a failure of the American educational establishment. Specifically English and Philosophy. They never told these kids how to figure out what a thing -IS-, or even to consider that important to know. So here we are, and knowing what an LLM really -IS- turns out to be worth billions and billions of dollars.
I’ve used Grok a lot and I’m impressed. Its understanding of English is excellent, even when I bugger up the spelling and grammar in my questions. And it gets humour and sarcasm. It could probably pass the Turing Test for intelligence. HAL is pretty much realized.