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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (20 children)

Except it’s not, because they can’t perfectly recall everything.

It’s more like reading every book in the world, and someone asking you what comes next after “And I…”.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

But the AI isn't "recalling" in the same way you do, it doesn't "remember" what it "read", it "reads" on demand and has instant access to essentially all of the information ~~available online~~ it was trained on (E: though it's becoming more or less the same thing, and is definitely the same when it comes to law books for example), from which it collects the necessary details if and when it needs it.

So yes, it is literally "sat" there with all the books open in front of it, and the ability to pinpoint a bit of information in any one of all the books in milliseconds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

It doesn’t read on demand, it reads once when it’s being trained, and it later recalls what it learnt from that training.

Training LLMs takes a very long time and a lot of hardware power.

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