Comment by qsera
4 hours ago
>I’m just curious, what would need to happen for you to change your opinion about this?
Imagine a machine that can calculate using logic circuits and one that uses a lookup table.
LLMs right now is the latter (please don't take literally, It is just an example). You can argue that the look up table is so huge that it works most of the time.
But I (and probably the parent commenter) need it to be the former. And that answers your question.
So it does not matter how huge the lookup table will grow in the future so that it will work more often, it is still a lookup table.
So people are divided into two groups right now. One group that goes by appearance, and one that goes by what the thing actually is fundamentally, despite the appearances.
But logic circuits are look up tables.
Every computation/function can be a look up table!
right, so why are you asking me to imagine one machine that can calculate using logic circuits and another that can calculate using a lookup table when we’re in agreement that they’re the same thing?
I reject the premise of your analogy.
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