Comment by DonHopkins
13 days ago
>"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy ____". Correct prediction is "dogs".
I would have predicted a single lazy "dog". Does that mean I'm more conscious than you? ;)
13 days ago
>"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy ____". Correct prediction is "dogs".
I would have predicted a single lazy "dog". Does that mean I'm more conscious than you? ;)
You don't get to pick what is "correct"; that's dictated by the training data. (Which cuold contain multiple versions that have either choice).
Neither do you, yet you literally just brashly and overconfidently hallucinated exactly like a poorly trained token predicting LLM that the:
>Correct prediction is "dogs".
Maybe I just trained on Wikipedia, or the February 9, 1885 edition of The Boston Journal "Current Notes" article, or Linda Bronson's 1888 book "Illustrative Shorthand", for what the statistically and historically "correct" completion is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728
As ninetyninenine pointed out, we don't understand what's going on with you either:
>Someone can claim that the responses are an illusion and they have no meaning but that exact argument applies to humans and we can’t say anything either way. We don’t understand what’s going on.
What I meant was that the correct prediction is "dogs" under the assumption that that is what has occurred in the arbitrarily selected training data. While we are training the thing, we want to get it to predict whatever is in the data.
> Why would you insert redundant letters into a lovely well-known succinct pangram
The 's' is not redundant, because my version of the pangram has "fox jumped" not "fox jumps".
I picked up this version as a kid and have always used that one when testing new keyboards.
> the whole point is to make the SHORTEST sentence with all letters of the alphabet
If that is the whole point, the fox-dog sentence must be abandoned for a shorter pangram.
The requirement those shorter pangrams tend not to satisfy is being easy to remember.
People don't care about the sentence being short, which is why variants starting with "The ..." instead of "A ..." soon appeared after the invention of the original, which itself could have dropped the "A".
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