At present, we have no idea how to do that, so the answer is still "this is not knowable" in practice.
Perhaps that changes tomorrow, or in a month, or a year from now, but until a theoretically-sound technique for understanding what the weights signify is described and demonstrated to be reliable, my statement remains true.
> so the answer is still "this is not knowable" in practice
No, it’s not. It is unknown. To say it may be unknowable you need a fundamental reason why it may not be knowable.
What lies behind event horizons may be unknowable. We have theoretical reasons to suspect this. What LLMs are doing isn’t well enough understood, theoretically, to even say what is knowable versus unknowable. Just what is known and not.
A method not existing and a method being impossible (or unlikely) to exist are separate concepts. When you say something is unknowable, it should mean it literally cannot be known—route around the question entirely.
In principle, yes, it may be possible.
At present, we have no idea how to do that, so the answer is still "this is not knowable" in practice.
Perhaps that changes tomorrow, or in a month, or a year from now, but until a theoretically-sound technique for understanding what the weights signify is described and demonstrated to be reliable, my statement remains true.
> so the answer is still "this is not knowable" in practice
No, it’s not. It is unknown. To say it may be unknowable you need a fundamental reason why it may not be knowable.
What lies behind event horizons may be unknowable. We have theoretical reasons to suspect this. What LLMs are doing isn’t well enough understood, theoretically, to even say what is knowable versus unknowable. Just what is known and not.
A method not existing and a method being impossible (or unlikely) to exist are separate concepts. When you say something is unknowable, it should mean it literally cannot be known—route around the question entirely.
Rumsfeld matrix
Separate concept. Whether something is knowable is separate from whether it is known.
Whether God exists is scientifically unknowable. The shape of a black-hole singularity is currently not known.
No, it's the same - because an LLM is not a God. It is not an unknowable. There are very few unknowables.
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