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[–] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 62 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is a strawman.

You cannot act as though feeding LLMs data is remotely comparable to reading.

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because reading is an inherently human activity.

An LLM consuming data from a training model is not.

[–] TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LLMs forcing us to take a look at ourselves and see if we're really that special.

I don't think we are.

[–] Dominic@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

For now, we're special.

LLMs are far more training data-intensive, hardware-intensive, and energy-intensive than a human brain. They're still very much a brute-force method of getting computers to work with language.

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