← Back to context

Comment by rhubarbtree

25 days ago

And what exactly do you think you are, sir?

A human, not a statistical model. I can insert any random words out of my own volition if I wanted to, not because I have been pre-programmed (pre-trained) to output tokens based on a limited 200k (tiny) context for one particular conversation and forget about it by the time a new session starts.

That’s why AI models, as they currently are, won’t ever be able to come up with anything even remotely novel.

  • Well, if you believe you’re powered by physical neurons and not spooky magic, that doesn’t seem very different from being a neural net.

    I see no evidence for you magical ability to behave outside of being a function of context and memory.

    You don’t think diffusion models are capable of novelty?

    • Neural networks is an extremely loose and simplified approximation of how actual biological brain neural pathways work. It’s simplified to the point that there’s basically nothing in common.

      1 reply →