I wonder every time I see this take what it would mean under this definition of knowing things for a machine learning algorithm to ever know something. I find that especially important because to every appearance we are a machine learning algorithm. I don’t know how different the sort of knowing this algorithm has to the sort of knowing a human has, but you’re far more confident than I am that it’s a difference of kind rather than degree.
Some interesting facts that point to it being a difference of degree. LLM are actually are more accurate when asked to explain their thinking. They make similar mistakes to humans intuitive reasoning.
It might help to define what we even mean by knowing things. To me being able to make novel predictions that require the knowledge is the only definition one could use that doesn’t run into the possibility of deciding humans don’t actually know anything
Some interesting facts that point to it being a difference of degree. LLM are actually are more accurate when asked to explain their thinking. They make similar mistakes to humans intuitive reasoning.
It might help to define what we even mean by knowing things. To me being able to make novel predictions that require the knowledge is the only definition one could use that doesn’t run into the possibility of deciding humans don’t actually know anything