Comment by card_zero
1 year ago
Racoons are said to be intelligent because they're good at opening locks. On the other hand, when they have food and are within ten feet of a pool of water, they will dip the food in the water and rub it between their paws for no reason. They can reason about the locks, but not about the food. Meanwhile, I in theory can reason about anything, but in practice I wouldn't count on it. Whereas an LLM can't reason, but it's very sharp and always ready to react appropriately.
I’m not familiar with this raccoon behavior but it sure doesn’t sound like it’s done without reason.
An LLM is never ready to react to anything because it’s just a matrix that needs a higher level system to invoke it.