• ???@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I fucking hate how OpenAi and other such companies claim their models “understand” language or are “fluent” in French. These are human attributes. Unless they made a synthetic brain, they can take these claims and shove them up their square tight corporate behinds.

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      6 months ago

      This is circular logic: only humans can be fluent, so the models can’t be fluent because they aren’t human.

      And it’s universally upvoted…in response to an ais getting things wrong so they can’t be doing anything but hallucinating.

      And will you learn from this? Nope. I’ll just be down voted and shouted at.

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        6 months ago

        This is not at all what I said. If a machine was complex enough to reason, all power to it. But these LLMs cannot.

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        6 months ago

        It’s not circular. LLMs cannot be fluent because fluency comes from an understanding of the language. An LLM is incapable of understanding so it is incapable of being fluent. It may be able to mimic it but that is a different thing. (In my opinion)

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          6 months ago

          You might agree with the conclusion, and the conclusion might even be correct, but the poster effectively argued ‘only humans can be fluent, and it’s not a human so it isn’t fluent’ and that is absolutely circular logic.