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0 pointsnailer3y ago0 comments

> Basically trying to cram human high level instincts/insights into the process of solving a problem doesn't work better than giving a general architecture tons of data and letting it figure that all out by itself.

Hi, programmer from outside ML here. You might be able to answer something I've been wandering about.

I do remember things like NLTK and logical inference many years ago. I understand the current tech is all large language models and (as you put it) the model figures out the rules.

Sometimes I get responses from ChatGPT that seem like they wouldn't pass logical inference. I will think "all the foos aren't capable of X, bar is an instance of foo, stop suggesting bar to do X". Is there room for old-school logical inference as a kind of sanity-check layer on top of LLMs?

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HPsquared3y ago

I wonder if they'll end up with specialized subunits for different processing tasks, like the old "lizard brain" model with the neocortex on top of other layers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain

famouswaffles3y ago

Nothing wrong with that at all. Could be a viable solution for specific use-cases. But for know, most researchers will focus on innately improving those abilities. Right now that would mostly be by increasing scale (data or parameter size), highly curated data for the specific deficiency or work on making transformers scale more efficiently. after all, GPT-4 is much better at logical reasoning than 3.5 and we still haven't hit a functional limit on scaling transformers.