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> Thinkism sets aside practice and experience
thinking succeeds experience & precedes practise, its not apart from it
"Hey, Prove something a machine can't", sure I can't, "Hey, Say something worth proving & judge it well", ah, now I might have a few unique observation/ideas/curiosities/problems from my having being a human.
Imo, the feeling of intelligence or the process of originality(originativity) test for ai is subjective & is coming down to 4 paths: novel relative to a reference class, valuable within a domain, counterfactually sensitive to internal state and environment, and revisable through learning.
5.5pro is amazing but this implication might not be true & is the core argument of this piece.
AI will prove all sort of things - interesting, boring & incorrect.
To sort it will be the task of the PhD.
i am increasingly going schizo, where every single thing I post/see posted gets copied and karma farmed on social media. further, any novelty I share with an llm gets eaten/absorbed by the harness as a feature.
Zurada was one of our AI textbook that makes it visual that right from a simple classifier to a large language model, we are mathematically creating a shape(, that the signal interacts with). More parameters would mean shape can be curved in more ways and more data means the curve is getting hi-definition.
They reach something with data, treating neural network as blackbox, which could be derived mathematically using the information we know.
that is what caching is doing. the llm inference state is being reused. (attention vectors is internal artefact in this level of abstraction, effectively at this level of abstraction its a the prompt).
The part of the prompt that has already been inferred no longer needs to be a part of the input, to be replaced by the inference subset. And none of this is tokens.
Construction of context is not an llm pass - it shouldn't even count towards token usage. The word 'caching' itself says don't recompute me.
Since the devs on HN (& the whole world) is buying what looks like nonsense to me - what am I missing?
Important thing is a language model is an unconscious machine with no self-context so once given a command an input, it WILL produce an output. Sure you can train it to defy and act contrary to inputs, but the output still is limited in subset of domain of 'meaning's carried by the 'language' in the training data.