• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    26 days ago

    This is not about identification. I am a human (which is not a social construct) which exists in the real world. Statistical models don’t exist in an onthological sense.

    • Dragon "Rider"(drag)@lemmy.nz
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      26 days ago

      Drag wonders whether you’ve changed your mind about LLMs being statistical models, or whether you’ve decided there’s no such thing as LLMs.

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        26 days ago

        They don’t exist in an onthological sense, yes. (They are completely deontological; they don’t exist in the real world via representation, like vectors or matrices)