Now I'm curious if anyone has or might try to create an LLM that lacks all knowledge of the post-einstein/newton/plato world and see if it can figure things out. I imagine lack of training data would be a problem, but maybe it could be a way to reverse-engineer an effective prompt that can give us insight in the platos of our world?

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StilesCrisis a day ago | parent | next [-]

Wouldn't it need a way to run physical experiments?

	▲	criddell a day ago \| parent [-]
		They would need to be much better at learning. You can teach a child how to drive a car and they can be good enough at it that the state will grant them a license to drive. Where's the learning robot that I can teach to drive a car in the same way? They can solve some complex math problem but can they read the cues of other drivers at a four way stop to know when they should go (knowing the rules isn't sufficient).

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leereeves a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> I imagine lack of training data would be a problem

I imagine that's an understatement. Using only the written works available from before Einstein (let alone Newton or Plato), you'd probably need a whole new technology that could train itself without any training data other than observation of the world.

	▲	dist-epoch a day ago \| parent [-]
		arguably it is feasible in principle to filter out that knowledge from later writings, but you can always say it leaked in a subtle way - "this chonky cat is bending space around it" (this is exaggerated, can be much more subtle and hard to notice)