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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I could see myself having conversations with an LLM, but I wouldn't want it to pretend it's anything other than a program assembling words together.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The way it clicks for me is that it's a juiced up auto-complete tool.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

It's literally that.

[–] Calabast@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Well that explains why that user thinks it completes them.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If llms are juiced up auto complete then humans are juiced up bacteria. Yeah they both have the same end goal, guess the next word, survive and reproduce , but the methods they use to accomplish them are vastly more complex.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

but it's still literally just looking at the text and calculating what's the most likely thing to follow, that's fundamentally how LLMs work

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's not pretending to be anything, that's just the function you described: assembling words together.