ftc1234 t1_it7ak7b wrote on October 21, 2022 at 1:31 PM

Reply to comment by visarga in If you believe you can think exponentially, you might be wrong. Transformative AI is here, and it is going to radically change the world before the Singularity, and before AGI. by AdditionalPizza

I think you understand the limitations of the approaches that you’ve discussed. Generating intermediate results and trying out possibilities of outcomes is not reasoning. It’s akin to a monte carlo simulation. We do such reasoning every day (eg. Is there time to eat breakfast or do you have to run to office for the meeting, do you call the plumber this week or do you wait till next month for the full paycheck, etc). LLMs are just repeating patterns and that can only take you so far.

visarga t1_it8o018 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 7:05 PM

> Generating intermediate results and trying out possibilities of outcomes is not reasoning.

Could be. People are doing something similar when faced with a novel problem. It doesn't count if you've memorised the best action from previous experience.