We had Markov Chains already. Fancy Markov Chains don't seem like a trillion dollar business or actual intelligence.

Completely agree. But if Markov chains are AI (and they always were categorized as such), then fancy Markov chains are still AI.

svachalek 3 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

An LLM is no more a fancy Markov Chain than you are. The math is well documented, go have a read.

	▲	jampekka 3 months ago \| parent [-]
		About everything can be modelled with large enough Markov Chain, but I'd say stateless autoregressive models like LLMs are a lot easier analyzed as Markov Chains than recurrent systems with very complex internal states like humans.

highfrequency 3 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The results make the method interesting, not the other way around.

baq 3 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Markov chains in meatspace running on 20W of power do quite a good job of actual intelligence