Hmm saying it’s random-ish is doing it a disservice. I understand it’s a stochastic process but there’s definitely some level of understanding. Not at the level of lived experience but usually an LLM with vision capabilities can call a spade a spade and do something useful with it. And when a verification function shows how they are wrong then they usually come with a better and more informed approach.

So I can’t fully see how that’s related to the infinite monkeys. A typewriting monkey doesn’t have access to a verification function. And even if it did, it would not be the original concept anymore with infinite typewriting monkeys producing the works of Shakespeare.

Nevertheless, I upvoted your comment because it’s definitely insightful.

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dwattttt 3 days ago | parent [-]

"understanding" is overstating it. Correlation between tokens embedded in the weights via training, yes.

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anon84873628 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Feedback loops certainly seem to give them some level of understanding.

Agent reads a skill file about how to use a CLI tool. It tries to use the tool but gets an error about the input format. It tries again with a different format based on the error message, and sees that command succeeded. It compares what worked to what was in the skill file and notes the difference. On future invocations it continues to use the new format.

Is that not "understanding" how to use the tool?

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mountainriver 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What’s the difference? It’s clearly processing information and coming up with the right answer

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hgoel 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What exactly would you call understanding? It's a correlation matrix of concepts.

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varjag 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Training is a loan word used to describe human learning process. For a reason.

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andix 3 days ago | parent [-]

Humans learn on the job. LLMs don't. Very important difference.

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varjag 2 days ago | parent [-]

Where do LLMs learn?

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andix 2 days ago | parent [-]

They get trained before release. On general information. But they don't improve while working on very specific tasks. Every new session is like an experienced human on their first day at a new job.

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varjag 2 days ago | parent [-]

When they get to you it's only inference. You have basic misunderstanding of what ANNs are.

They train on a billion "jobs". Which is not terribly efficient but oh man they do train.

	▲	andix 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Unique skills and jobs do exist. And LLMs can't gain additional knowledge "on the job" like humans can. They are generalists, that can only be steered by prompts, skills and context. Thats all I'm saying. This fact is currently the most limiting factor for LLMs.