I saw a comment (which I can’t find anymore) of an extremely astute observation about LLMs:
People only ever attribute human-like attributes like cognition and reasoning to chatbot LLMs—but never to e.g. image generators. Which use the same algorithms and technical implementation.
@thomasfuchs the image generators are way worse in faking understanding than the text generators.
The generated images show clearly that the thing really doesn't understand a word of what you wrote in the prompt. If you ask for a very specific thing and that is not in the image than there is no denying.
The text generator is good at incorporating details from the prompt into the output. Even if the output is factual wrong. So the user feels heard and understood.
Thomas Fuchs
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