That is certainly true. The people who designed and developed GPT and related LLM-based
systems admit that fact:
Mihai Nadin: [ChatGPT] is syntactic. I made this claim repeatedly. It is a mimicking
machine of high performance (brute computation).
But the proponents of Generative AI confuse the issues with a large cloud of highly
technical terminology (AKA human generated BS). They claim that if they increase the
amount of data to some immense amount, they will have covered all the options so that the
probability of finding a correct answer will auto-magically converge to 0.9999999....
They have persuaded Elon Musk and other gullible investors that by pouring more billions
and even trillions of $$$ into building ultra-massive computer systems, they will
magically become ultra-intelligent.
Unfortunately, the WWW has huge amounts of false, fraudulent, mistaken, misled, social
media, espionage, counter-espionage, dangerous, and disastrous data. Detecting and
deleting all that garbage is extremely difficult. People have tried to use LLM-based
technology to find, evaluate, and erase such data -- and they have failed, miserably.
As I have repeatedly said, anything LLMs generate is a hypothesis (AKA abduction or
guess). Before any abduction can be accepted, it must be evaluated by deduction (AKA
reliable reasoning methods). There are almost 80 years of reliable methods developed by
AI and computer science. They are essential for reliable computation.
All commercial computing systems that require high reliability (banking, engineering,
scientific research, aeronautics, space exploration, etc.) require extremely high
precision. They also use statistical methods for many purposes, but they use statistics
with precise error bounds.
Those high precision methods control the world economy and support human life. None of
those computations can be replaced by LLM-based methods. Many of them can benefit from
LLM-based computations -- but ONLY IF those computations are EVALUATED by traditional
deductive methods.
John
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From: "Nadin, Mihai" <nadin(a)utdallas.edu>
It is syntactic. I made this claim repeatedly. It is a mimicking machine of high
performance (brute computation).
Mihai Nadin
Sent from planet earth