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GPT-4 cannot alter its weights once it has been trained so this is just factually wrong.
LLMs are really cool and very useful, don't get me wrong. But people get excited by what they seem to do and lose sight of what they actually can do. They are not intelligent. They create text based on inputs. That is not what intelligence is, unless you have an extremely dismal view of intelligence that humans are text creation machines with no thoughts, no feelings, no desires, no ability to plan... basically, no internal world at all.
An LLM is an algorithm, not an intelligence.
The author is an imbecile if they haven't been able to break GPT. It took me less than one day of tooling around with it before I got it to say something which outed it as having no understanding of what we were discussing.
Adam Something uploaded a video starting with the definition of intelligence itself, and then explains how something that “acts” intelligent doesn’t mean it “is” intelligent.
I think even "intelligence" here is a stretch. In a very narrow sense, it is intelligent: it creates text, simulates conversations, answers questions. But that is not what intelligence is (and it is all LLMs can do).
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The bit you quoted is referring to training.
Recent papers say otherwise.
The conclusion the author of that article comes to (LLMs can understand animal language) is.. problematic at the very least. I don't know how they expect that to happen.
It can come up with new solutions never seen before, so there is absolutely some intelligence. Hell, animals have to do the simplest shit to get called intelligent.
are you not an algorithm?
perfected over thousands of years?
It’s a state machine and so are we. If it can have the ability to alter itself the way we do, I don’t see how we are any different.
It can't; again the model does not and cannot change once it's been generated.
And you really don't want it to either. That could cause all sorts of privacy issues if you accidentally include private information in the conversation - and as far as I have heard it is harder to remove information from LLMs than it is to "add" information to it.
Also Microsoft's Tay could adapt itself based on conversations and that went real well...
That's an architectural choice, there's nothing inherent to the approach that would prevent that from happening.