▲ 834 ▼ F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email (itsfoss.com) submitted 10 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 114 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s
[+] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world -13 points 10 months ago* (3 children) Reinforcement learning permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago That's leaving out vital information however. Certain types of brains (e.g. mammal brains) can derive abstract understanding of relationships from reinforcement learning. A LLM that is trained on "letting go of a stone makes it fall to the ground" will not be able to predict what "letting go of a stick" will result in. Unless it is trained on thousands of other non-stick objects also falling to the ground, in which case it will also tell you that letting go of a gas balloon will make it fall to the ground. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago That's the thing with our terminology, we love to anthropomorphize things. It wasn't a big problem before because most people had enough grasp on reality to understand that when a script makes :-) smile when the result is positive, or :-( smile otherwise, there is no actual mind behind it that can be happy or sad. But now the generator makes convincing enough sequence of words, so people went mad, and this cute terminology doesn't work anymore. permalink fedilink source parent [–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago Bazzinga permalink fedilink source parent
[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago That's leaving out vital information however. Certain types of brains (e.g. mammal brains) can derive abstract understanding of relationships from reinforcement learning. A LLM that is trained on "letting go of a stone makes it fall to the ground" will not be able to predict what "letting go of a stick" will result in. Unless it is trained on thousands of other non-stick objects also falling to the ground, in which case it will also tell you that letting go of a gas balloon will make it fall to the ground. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago That's the thing with our terminology, we love to anthropomorphize things. It wasn't a big problem before because most people had enough grasp on reality to understand that when a script makes :-) smile when the result is positive, or :-( smile otherwise, there is no actual mind behind it that can be happy or sad. But now the generator makes convincing enough sequence of words, so people went mad, and this cute terminology doesn't work anymore. permalink fedilink source parent