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Re: Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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LLMs can’t but humans supplied with data and reasoning from an LLM can make novel jumps without absolute prior knowledge, or at least with reduced need for years of knowledge. And then such jump can be verified by a machine so human kind of plugs the intelligence gap. That’s pretty exciting. I always liked to provocatively call LLM „the new calculator”. Calculator for language. We are so focused on creating a standal…

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Re: Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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LLMs can’t but humans supplied with data and reasoning from an LLM can make novel jumps without absolute prior knowledge, or at least with reduced need for years of knowledge. And then such jump can be verified by a machine so human kind of plugs the intelligence gap. That’s pretty exciting. I always liked to provocatively call LLM „the new calculator”. Calculator for language. We are so focused on creating a standal…

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Re: Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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Or, ask yourself the following question: If you read every single book there is about The Grand Canyon, and watched every single video and/or documentary about The Grand Canyon, do you believe that you have fully experienced The Grand Canyon? Or do you just have to be there to fully experience it. I dunno. Substitute in whatever you want for "The Grand Canyon". Maybe climbing Mount Everest or walking on the Moon. The…

I think I could get very close via video. But that depends on a lot of my non-canyon experience moving around the world, and LLMs are very flawed in their ability to input video, so I think they would not get nearly as close.

Grand Canyon looks kinda meh on pictures/video. It's much more impressive in person. Honestly, it's amazing taking a picture of something that's breathtaking and the picture not being breathtaking.
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