Comment by wpietri
5 days ago
> You'll not only never know this, it's IMHO not very useful to think about at all, except as an intellectual exercise.
I think it's very useful if one wants to properly weigh the value of LLMs in a way that gets beyond the hype. Which I do.
My 80-year old dad tells me that when he bought his first car, he could pop open the hood and fiddle with things and maybe get it to work after a breakdown
Now he can't - it's too closed and complicated
Yet, modern cars are way better and almost never breakdown
Don't see how LLMs are any different than any other tech advancement that obfuscates and abstracts the "fundamentals".
I definitely believe that you don't see it. We just disagree on what that implies.
Oops, this was a reply to somebody else put in the wrong place. Sorry for the confusion.