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points by whycombilater 2 days ago | 0 comments

Yes they are.

Humans aren't magical.

They also aren't a glorified library. They are authors, they generate the books in the library.

Cross reference a load of books and you will get useful relational info, but it's still a library index in a library.

How do you know an llm cannot create new content. Humans create what they do out of existing information and molecular and neural interactions, so do llms except with electrical interactions. I have had llms produce novel content all the time.

[–] whycombilater 1 day ago

You're confusing hidden relational information extracted from training data for "new content".

[–] hardbass 17 hours ago

How do you think humans generate new content? Do you think they get new information from thin air?

[–] whycombilater 14 hours ago

From their own subjective experience.

[–] hardbass 14 hours ago

Yes and? Still not seeing whats the special part you are seeing that's different here. LLM's have both the massive data they are trained on to draw from and working memory. I am not sure what this subjective experience you think is other than data and signals.

[–] whycombilater 9 hours ago

My subjective experience is mine, driven by me, and I record my thoughts about it on paper.

An LLMs experience is everyone else's subjective view of their history. It doesn't make its own and it never can.

An LLM is a clone of Guy Pearce trapped in a context window which is just reruns of memento with script variations.

[–] hardbass 3 hours ago

In what way do you think an LLM or an LLM instance doesn't have its own working memory and thoughts? Do you think there is telepathy involved where two LLM's communicate without any signal? What exactly difference does it make whether the experience is in your brain or some server?