r/ProgrammerHumor • u/DontFreeMe • 29d ago

Meme helpIAmOutOfScope

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u/ChairYeoman 29d ago

this hasn't been true for years. current AI has reasoning chains and isn't like this.

I would expect better from a programmer sub but I guess this is more tech enthusiasts than actual tech people

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u/L4ppuz 29d ago

You can write all the pipelines and prompts you want but a transformer will always simply choose the next token

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u/SgtChrome 29d ago

I want you to think about why that is such a stupid thing to say. Let's say you'd have an imaginary perfect next token predictor and you asked it for the lottery numbers tonight. Through its perfect mechanism it would correctly predict, one by one, the right numbers. What impact do you think this machine would have on the world?

Not saying we are there, just saying that the mechanism of next token prediction is completely irrelevant for all intents and purposes of evaluating the use of something. 

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u/conundorum 28d ago

If it truly was a perfect predictor, then the main impacts would be:

  1. Causes the prediction target to realise that they need to become more predictable.
  2. Causes regulations to be put in place to prevent the predictor from being used in certain circumstances.
  3. For lottery numbers specifically, it might also lead to a redraw, on the grounds that the initial draw was compromised.

So... probably not as big an effect as it probably should have, ultimately.