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LLMs as a Different Kind of Intelligence
As I was writing this post I could not crystallize who the target audience for it is, other than for myself to put into writing how I view and think about LLMs. I have spent enough time with these systems by now that I have stopped trying to map them onto things I already understand, because every analogy I reach for ends up breaking somewhere. The most honest thing I can say after all this time is that what we are dealing with is a different kind of intelligence, strictly different from our own, and I think most of the confusion around these tools comes from us pretending otherwise. Handmade Oasis · handmadeoasis.com
As I was writing this post I could not crystallize who the target audience for it is, other than for myself to put into writing how I view and think about LLMs. I have spent enough time with these systems by now that I have stopped trying to map them onto things I already understand, because every analogy I reach for ends up breaking somewhere. The most honest thing I can say after all this time is that what we are dealing with is a different kind of intelligence, strictly different from our own, and I think most of the confusion around these tools comes from us pretending otherwise.
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