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Is it closer to Mussolini or bread? Mussolini. Is it closer to Mussolini or David Beckham? Uhh, I guess Mussolini. (Ok, they’re definitely thinking of a person.) That reasoning doesn't follow. Many things besides people would have the same answers, for instance any animal that seems more like Mussolini than Beckham.
Is it closer to Mussolini or bread? Mussolini. Is it closer to Mussolini or David Beckham? Uhh, I guess Mussolini. (Ok, they’re definitely thinking of a person.) That reasoning doesn't follow. Many things besides people would have the same answers, for instance any animal that seems more like Mussolini than Beckham.
Whoops. I hope you can overlook this minor logical error.
I think “we might decode whale speech or ancient languages” is a huge stretch. Context is the most important part of what makes language useful. There is billions of human-written texts, grounded in shared experience that makes our AI good at language. We don't have that for a whale.
I recently gave the "Veeam Intelligence" a spin.
Veeam is a backup system spanning quite a lot of IT systems with a lot of options - it is quite complicated but it is also a bounded domain - the app does as the app does. It is very mature and has extremely good technical documentation and a massive amount of technical information docs (TIDs) and a vibrant and very well informed set of web forums, staffed by ... staff and even the likes of Anton Gostev - https://www.veeam.com/company/management-team.html
Surely they have close to the perfect data set to train on?
I asked a question about moving existing VMware replicas from one datastore to another and how to keep my replication jobs working correctly. In this field, you may not be familiar with my particular requirements but this is not a niche issue.
The "VI" came up with a reasonable sounding answer involving a wizard. I hunted around the GUI looking for it (I had actually used that wizard a while back). So I asked where it was and was given directions. It wasn't there. The wizard was genuine but its usage here was a hallucination.
A human might have done the same thing with some half remembered knowledge but would soon fix that with the docs or the app itself.
I will stick to reading the docs. They are really well written and I am reasonably proficient in this field so actually - a decent index is all I need to get a job done. I might get some of my staff to play with this thing when given a few tasks that they are unfamiliar with and see what it comes up with.
I am sure that domain specific LLMs are where it is at but we need some sort of efficient "fact checker" system.
LLM ”training” is just brute forcing the same function into existence. ”Human brain output X, llm output Y, mutate it times billion until X and Y start matching”
I think “we might decode whale speech or ancient languages” is a huge stretch. Context is the most important part of what makes language useful. There is billions of human-written texts, grounded in shared experience that makes our AI good at language. We don't have that for a whale.
If a lion could speak, would we understand it?
I think “we might decode whale speech or ancient languages” is a huge stretch. Context is the most important part of what makes language useful. There is billions of human-written texts, grounded in shared experience that makes our AI good at language. We don't have that for a whale.
If a lion could speak, would we understand it?
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If a lion could speak, would we understand it?
There is nothing really special about speech as a form of communication. All animals communicate with each other and with other animals. Informational density and, uhhhhh, cyclomatic complexity might be different between speech and a dance or a grunt or whatever.
Thus, to your point, assuming communication, because "there's nothing really special about speech", does that mean we would be able to understand a lion, if the lion could speak? Wittgenstein would say probably not. At least not initially and not until we had built shared lived experiences.
I think “we might decode whale speech or ancient languages” is a huge stretch. Context is the most important part of what makes language useful. There is billions of human-written texts, grounded in shared experience that makes our AI good at language. We don't have that for a whale.
If a lion could speak, would we understand it?