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The Curious Similarity Between LLMs and Quantum Mechanics

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Re: The Curious Similarity Between LLMs and Quantum Mechanics

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This is godawful slop written by someone who seems to have a cursory enthusiast's understanding of either of these topics.

Great discoveries are often made when someone has the cleverness to join together multiple, seemingly unconnected domains.

I'm a layman in both QM and LLMs, and found a few of the comparisons here contrived, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.

Re: The Curious Similarity Between LLMs and Quantum Mechanics

#4

This is godawful slop written by someone who seems to have a cursory enthusiast's understanding of either of these topics.

Great discoveries are often made when someone has the cleverness to join together multiple, seemingly unconnected domains. I'm a layman in both QM and LLMs, and found a few of the comparisons here contrived, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.

I was half expecting a discussion of the eigenvalues of a random matrix, or something at least halfway plausible, but no, this is useless mumbo jumbo, a la Deepak Chopra. People with zero understanding of quantum mechanics should stop making analogies to everything else.

Re: The Curious Similarity Between LLMs and Quantum Mechanics

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This one makes more sense https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-021-00503-3

Emergent Quantumness in Neural Networks

Abstract: ...Madelung equations, that is, a hydrodynamic form of the Schrödinger equation, can be derived from a canonical ensemble of neural networks where the quantum phase was identified with the free energy of hidden variables.

Re: The Curious Similarity Between LLMs and Quantum Mechanics

#9

This is godawful slop written by someone who seems to have a cursory enthusiast's understanding of either of these topics.

Great discoveries are often made when someone has the cleverness to join together multiple, seemingly unconnected domains. I'm a layman in both QM and LLMs, and found a few of the comparisons here contrived, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.

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