From: Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
Cc: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enhancing ELisp for AI Work
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:06:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <865xn7dll4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v7v9f3uh.fsf@librehacker.com> (Christopher Howard's message of "Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:22:30 -0900")
Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
>> LLMs are able to reason. With the amount of data they will be
>> -- and probably already are-- much stronger in
>> reasoning/deduction then humans.
>>
>> LLMs are creativ, constructing new terms from reasoning.
>
> The point of the previous article was to demonstrate that LLMs
> do not reason, or more particularly, attempt to determine
> truth. They simply try to calculate what is the next most likely
> and natural thing you expect to see in a flow of
> words. Sometimes you get something true out of that, often times
> you get something that is either false or shallow.
I'm really hesitant to contribute to a thread that's probably
off-topic, but I'd like to suggest that an LLM's output is perhaps
best thought of as quoted text, so it is neither true nor false.
The quotes are only removed when a reader reads it.
Regards,
- Joel
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2024-12-16 11:28 ` Enhancing ELisp for AI Work Andrew Goh via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2024-12-16 14:55 ` Tomáš Petit
2024-12-16 16:26 ` Jean Louis
2024-12-16 17:38 ` Jean Louis
2024-12-17 6:24 ` Tomáš Petit
2024-12-17 10:29 ` Jean Louis
2024-12-17 10:34 ` Jean Louis
2024-12-17 11:40 ` Tomáš Petit
2024-12-17 21:35 ` Jean Louis
2024-12-18 5:04 ` tomas
2024-12-24 10:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2024-12-24 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-25 20:20 ` Andreas Röhler
2024-12-24 16:22 ` Christopher Howard
2024-12-26 6:06 ` Joel Reicher [this message]
2024-12-24 21:27 ` Jean Louis
2024-12-24 21:58 ` Is ChatGPT bullshit? tomas
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