thanks for introducing me to him, he seems like a cool dude!
and yeah, that quote is spot on - LLMs are just not going to produce human-like sentience, lol
the neural networks underlying LLMs might be used to that end, though! but I’m pretty sure predictive text generation is not a way neural networks might bring about something like sentience.
Still, it’s a neat trick because lots of people will confuse sufficiently human-like text generation with there being an actual mind on the other side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow
thanks for introducing me to him, he seems like a cool dude!
and yeah, that quote is spot on - LLMs are just not going to produce human-like sentience, lol
the neural networks underlying LLMs might be used to that end, though! but I’m pretty sure predictive text generation is not a way neural networks might bring about something like sentience.
Still, it’s a neat trick because lots of people will confuse sufficiently human-like text generation with there being an actual mind on the other side.