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Context Widows - by Kevin Baker - Artificial Bureaucracy

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or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

The argument about whether large language models can “do science” has the structure of a trap. The debate proceeds along predictable lines: enthusiasts point to protein folding, to materials science, to the generation of novel hypotheses; critics point to hallucination, to the absence of understanding, to the difference between pattern-matching and insight. But answer yes and you’re a booster, answer no and you’re a skeptic, and either way you’ve made the technology the protagonist. Both sides assume the only question worth asking is a capabilities question: what can these systems really…

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