"AI architecture is not an interest of mine..."
That's sensible. But. What LLMs do is quite simple.
LLMs are exactly and only _statistical text generators_. Albeit fancy ones.
The AI bros claim that statistical operations on enormous text databases can generate causal reasoning and thus intelligence.
That breaks the first law of statistics: correlation is not causation.
Thus LLMs can't possibly do what's claimed.
#AI #generativeAI #statistics
David, a Bostonian in Tokyo.
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