What if we never found the Rosetta Stone and could not read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Could computers or AI decipher them today?

  • negativenull
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    1 year ago

    Don’t confuse modern LLM models (like ChatGPT) with AI. As the saying goes:

    All Buicks are Cars, but not all Cars are Buicks

    LLMs are a form of AI, but there is a lot more going on in the world of AI than just LLMs.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a good point, and you’re right that I’m conflating them.

      What other elements of AI would you imagine would be useful here?

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      1 year ago

      to expand your point, the sole job of an LLM is to, when given a sequence of words (e.g. half a sentence), predict what the next several words should be. the model has no concept of what English words mean, so instead it makes this prediction based on statistics that were derived from basically reading through hundreds of thousands of English sentences

      TL;DR LLMs don’t understand languages, they’ve just memorized statistics about them