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thom on May 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How AI knows things no one told it

Why would LLMs not learn abstractions when given millions of of concrete examples?

jamilton on May 14, 2023 [–]

Why would it necessarily learn abstractions?

I believe GPT-3 doesn't have the abstraction for arithmetic.

thom on May 14, 2023 | [–]

Neither did my children for several years.

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