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> Contrary to what the average HackerNews seems to believe, LLMs don’t “think,” they just predict.

Anecdotally, I can't recall ever seeing someone on HackerNews accuse LLM's of thinking. This site is probably one of the most educated corners of the internet on the topic.

> They shouldn’t be expected to improve in accuracy because of what they are and how they work.

> And there’s nothing in them that will constrain their token prediction in a way that improves accuracy.

These are both incorrect. LLM's are already quite better today than they were in 2022.



> I can’t recall ever seeing someone on HackerNews accuse LLMs of thinking.

There are definitely people here who think LLMs are conscious.

https://qqrl.tk/item?id=41959163




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