[HN Gopher] Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding ...
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       Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world
        
       Author : gmays
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2024-11-14 14:41 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (news.mit.edu)
        
       | h_tbob wrote:
       | To be honest... it's amazing it can have any understanding given
       | the only "senses" it has are the 1024 inputs of d_model!
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       | Imagine trying to understand the world if you were simply given
       | books and books in a language you had never read... and you
       | didn't even know how to read or even talk!
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       | So it's pretty incredible it's got this far!
        
       | jmole wrote:
       | None of us has a coherent view of the world, the map is not the
       | territory..
        
         | partomniscient wrote:
         | Yeah I was going to call out MIT for pointing out the obvious,
         | but there's enough noise/misunderstanding out there, that this
         | kind of article can lead to the 'I get it' moment for someone.
        
       | mediumsmart wrote:
       | AI generates a world that is language mapped by word pointing to
       | another word like we did?
        
         | Pet_Ant wrote:
         | Actually that is a real question and it has been studied in
         | philosophy of the mind:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_object
        
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