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From: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enhancing ELisp for AI Work
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:22:30 -0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v7v9f3uh.fsf@librehacker.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c53521e-4aa6-40d1-b4a5-0e00989ad201@easy-emacs.de> ("Andreas Röhler"'s message of "Tue, 24 Dec 2024 11:57:08 +0100")

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.

Explain how you go from that, to saying that LLMs are doing reasoning and deduction, and are creative.

There are software programs that attempt to do deduction and reasoning, by connecting propositions and arguments to determine truth and falsity. But as far as I understand, that is not what LLMs do.

-- 
Christopher Howard



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-12-24 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7290780.2375960.1734348492938.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2024-12-16 11:28 ` Enhancing ELisp for AI Work Andrew Goh via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-16 13:39   ` Jean Louis
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 [this message]
2024-12-24 21:27                 ` Jean Louis
2024-12-24 21:58                 ` Is ChatGPT bullshit? tomas

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