Notices by Joseph Szymborski :qcca: (jszym@cosocial.ca), page 3

@evan @Gargron The generating functions of LLMs are (again, IMHO) both the most hyped and least useful function of LLMs.

While LLMs generate text that is coherent, that can illicit emotion or thought or any number of things, we're mostly looking into a mirror. LLMs don't "integrate" knowledge, they're just really, really, really big Markov chains.

Don't get me wrong, "intelligent" systems most certainly will use an LLM, but generating text from prompts the way we do isn't intelligence.

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@evan @Gargron Ok, ok, one parting thought:

I'll just add that having memory, being adaptive, and using language to communicate are all things that computer programmes that don't use LLMs do today.

LLMs are (IMHO) the most convincing mimics we've ever created by many orders of magnitude. But they don't actually *know* anything.

I can't wait for the world to see what truly *useful* things LLMs can do other than be sometimes right on logic puzzles and write bad poetry.

@evan @Gargron I'd have to disagree. LLMs are primarily used for two things, parsing text, and generating text.

The parsing functions of LLMs are truly incredible, an represent (IMHO) a generational shift in tech. But the world's best regex isn't intelligence in my book, even if it parses semantically.

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@evan regardless of the truth, it is now in my head canon

@evan It's now on my reading list!

@evan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBCXCwW5pRw

I think the most unexpected thing I've learned from studying networks of protein-interactions is something called the [Friendship Paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox)

The major implication is that, on average, your friends are more popular than you. They also, on avg, have had more sexual partners.

If you're starting to feel personally attacked, don't worry, it's just a case of sampling bias and high-degree networks. There's a bunch of math that can explain this but it's also intuitive imho [1/2]

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