This is the single best explanation (long!) I've read about why LLMs are a con. Great piece from @baldur.
Edited 160d ago
This is the single best explanation (long!) I've read about why LLMs are a con. Great piece from @baldur.
I like the analogy. What worries me is that this kind of critique tends to provoke a connectionist-type reaction along the lines of:
Well, isn't human intelligence itself a kind of statistical trick?
The article partially addressed this by noting that rationalist people will try to come up with clever explanations for how the con worked.
But more than that, sometimes it seems like acceptance of LLMs as true intelligence often accompanies a denigration of and/or reductionist viewpoint about human intelligence itself.