Cf: Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 3
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/03/01/inquiry-into-inquiry-on-initiative…
Re: Scott Aaronson on Large Language Models (
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7042 )
::: My Comment (
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7042#comment-1946961 )
All,
The more fundamental problem I see here is the failure to grasp the nature of
the task at hand, and this I attribute not to a program but to its developers.
Journalism, Research, and Scholarship are not matters of generating probable
responses to prompts (stimuli). What matters is producing evidentiary and
logical supports for statements. That is the task requirement the developers
of LLM-Bots are failing to grasp.
There is nothing new about that failure. There is a long history of attempts
to account for intelligence and indeed the workings of scientific inquiry based
on the principles of associationism, behaviorism, connectionism, and theories of
that order. But the relationship of empirical evidence, logical inference, and
scientific information is more complex and intricate than is dreamt of in those
reductive philosophies.
Regards,
Jon (
https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry )