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Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason

75 points · 159 comments · leopoldj

  1. coreyh14444 · · focus · HN ↗
    Jet planes don't fly by flapping their wings...
    1. hollowturtle · · focus · HN ↗
      Birds don't fly by producing thrust out of their asses... what the heck that comparison does even mean?
      1. rtrgrd · · focus · HN ↗
        Reading charitably: just because our inventions do something different to nature doesn't mean that our invention is wrong;

        In context: just because our LLMs don't have an explicit 'system 2' component doesnt mean it can't have superhuman reasoning

        1. hollowturtle · · focus · HN ↗
          This comparison between fly and intelligence is worthy of the most vulgar bar talk

          > it can't have superhuman reasoning

          no they don't, we still die of cancer, there's no global deployed autonomous driving and food production driven by super intelligent ais and I'm not walking on mars thanks to gravitational elevators

          1. warkdarrior · · focus · HN ↗
            > there's no global deployed autonomous driving

            Love to see the forever moving goalposts. One might say they're autonomously moving..

            1. hollowturtle · · focus · HN ↗
              > Love to see the forever moving goalposts.

              Do we have finally reliable autonomous driving? And available outside the bay area or whatever small place compared to the rest of the world?

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