Re: Enhancing ELisp for AI Work

[Christopher Howard]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> LLMs are able to reason. With the amount of data they will be -- and
> probably already are-- much stronger in reasoning/deduction then
> humans.
>
> LLMs are creativ, constructing new terms from reasoning.

The point of the previous article was to demonstrate that LLMs do not reason, 
or more particularly, attempt to determine truth. They simply try to calculate 
what is the next most likely and natural thing you expect to see in a flow of 
words. Sometimes you get something true out of that, often times you get 
something that is either false or shallow.

Explain how you go from that, to saying that LLMs are doing reasoning and 
deduction, and are creative.

There are software programs that attempt to do deduction and reasoning, by 
connecting propositions and arguments to determine truth and falsity. But as 
far as I understand, that is not what LLMs do.

-- 
Christopher Howard