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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I absolutely feel like in a thousand years, we'll talk to a machine and not even know how it works.

Hell, I look at the computer in front of me and only feel like I know a fraction of what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hail the Omnissiah!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's what neural networks are now. We do not know how it works under the hood. We just feed it training data.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

We know how it works, but we can't explain exactly how it got to the answers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

We do, though.

Just to make sure my understanding was accurate, I asked Gemini to critique my explanation:

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Unless it’s lying to me about itself, I was able to explain the basics of it in two relatively simple sentences. Of course that doesn’t cover everything, but Gemini thinks that’s a pretty good overview. After expanding on each point in its reply, it said this:

I think a lot of the confusion over these models stems from hype and marketing that makes them out to be more than what they are.