leopoldj

Western tradition has firmly put pure reasoning in a cage. It serves its purpose only as a source of hypotheses, conjecture and thought experiments. Abrahamic religions, while still not accepted sensu proprio by many, are much less mystical than the Eastern Religions. You can see the difference in the unusual creative process of Ramanujan.

Which tradition are we to follow then whilst training the AI models? Pushed beyond their limits today's models tend to hallucinate and cannot be accepted sensu proprio. Philosophers will call it speculative reasoning. And yet, some speculation can be useful in breaking new grounds. Anyway, I have no answers. Just musings.

Supervised training uses this precise loop. The difference between inference and observation is called the loss function.

Models are now starting to show emergent behavior that they were not explicitly trained for. This is leading to the current debate.

Sorry, I misinterpreted your question:

Do we have evidence humans have an independent set of beliefs not shaped by knowledge and reasoning?

As:

Do we have evidence humans have an independent set of beliefs not shaped by observation and experience?

Because, that will be a priori or pure reason.

I hear what you're saying. But this is not such a model. The article says that various internal teams had to fine-tune Clef to suit their specific needs. They're even rolling out a RL training product line for it.

Philosophers like Kant, Descartes and Locke wanted to draw a distinction between a priori and a posteriori beliefs (or knowledge). I believe AI will be very much bound by these discussions. Some knowledge can be had purely by reason. Some other knowledge will require observations.

Happy to see the uses of standard C++ including std::shared_ptr etc. in C++.

Please do not encourage your children to carry and brandish replica guns. This is never a good idea. Unfortunately I see this more frequently than I like. Kids don't just carry, they aim and pretend to shoot. Even in an open carry state like Florida brandishing a gun is illegal.