Comment by whycombilater
5 hours ago
LLMs are just regurgitating an output according to a set of rules generated from harvesting all human output.
Language to humans is a symbolic mapping of labels to reality based on actual experience.
"Language" to LLMs is just a string of tokens to manipulate based on relationships harvested from recorded human experience.
It doesn't mean anything other than 1s and 0s - it's not a language because the LLM isn't communicating with you, just as the sum of humanity isn't communicating with you.
It's just a really good "choose your own adventure" book.
...do you think molecules and their interactions are also not bounded physical systems? What part of a human being do you think isn't a turing computer? Please release your groundbreaking physics paper proving this.
Yes they are.
Humans aren't magical.
They also aren't a glorified library. They are authors, they generate the books in the library.
Cross reference a load of books and you will get useful relational info, but it's still a library index in a library.