To be fair, we also trained the LLM on (among other things) shakespeare, and adjusted the weights so that generating shakespeare would be more likely after that training.

We don't claim a JPEG can paint great art, even though certain jpegs do.

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almosthere 3 days ago | parent [-]

So, more proof it's not thinking, right? It can only regurgitate a large if/else superstructure with some jumping around.

	▲	procaryote 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Who truly knows if you can make an if-else + randomness structure big enough to become smart? But yes, we built a machine that generates text similar to what we built it from, and now we're looking at it generating text and are all impressed.