• wondrous_strange@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Good on you for saying it so eloquently. None of them would have dared to say anything remotely similar to ‘we don’t know’ if it really was the case

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      3 months ago

      The GPT architecture is well understood, the part that is hard to explain is the way information is encoded in the trained model’s parameters. It’s not magic, it’s just a highly opaque encoding.

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    3 months ago

    I’m not the least bit surprised the CEO has no idea how these things work. But if the CEO not understanding something makes it magic, that also makes computers, cell phones, cars, the weather, healthy relationships, and being a decent person magic as well.

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      3 months ago

      Remind me of the old saying about them ancient rotary dials phones, how no one in the world knows how to build one fully from scratch.

      You made great analogies and very true