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All of that may be true, but pangram currently has a false positive rate of about 1 in 10000, and this has been tested by feeding in thousands of texts written before 2020. That ma…

That’s fair. Clearly Knuth himself thought it was impressive, that’s a strong signal.

Claude did not find a proof, though. It found an algorithm which Knuth then proved was correct.

The companies aren’t changing anything. LLM outputs are just more random than people realize. Run the same prompt 10 times if you really want to know how well they can answer.

Counterpoint: What progress has generative linguistics made in the same amount of time that deep learning has been around? It sure doesn't seem to be working well. Also, the raceca…

I think this is greatly complicated by the fact that the human brain has been "pre-trained" (in the deep learning sense) by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. A pre-traine…