Thanks for pointing this out! I should have made it clearer that I did not use ChatGPT to come up with a criticism, then write about it. Instead, I wanted to see if even ChatGPT was able to point out the flaws in LeCun’s argument, which seemed obvious to me. I’ll edit the text accordingly.
I mean, I’d say that’s mostly meant for irony—when even an LLM can poke legitimate holes in your argument, it’s less of an argument and more of a generic attempt at copium...
I disagree with this: LLMs seem capable to be ~equally good at arguing for false and true positions, if you ask them (as evidenced by the many incorrect proofs produced by Galactica) when asked for it.
Of course, but if not asked, they will generally come up with the most standard answer to something. Again, I didn’t take that bit as deferring to ChatGPT as some kind of authority, but rather as a “even a stupid LLM can immediately come up with the obvious criticism that you can immediately recognise as correct”.
I was going to upvote this (for reporting what LeCun said on Twitter) till I got to “I asked ChatGPT 3.5 to criticize this”.
Thanks for pointing this out! I should have made it clearer that I did not use ChatGPT to come up with a criticism, then write about it. Instead, I wanted to see if even ChatGPT was able to point out the flaws in LeCun’s argument, which seemed obvious to me. I’ll edit the text accordingly.
I mean, I’d say that’s mostly meant for irony—when even an LLM can poke legitimate holes in your argument, it’s less of an argument and more of a generic attempt at copium...
I disagree with this: LLMs seem capable to be ~equally good at arguing for false and true positions, if you ask them (as evidenced by the many incorrect proofs produced by Galactica) when asked for it.
Of course, but if not asked, they will generally come up with the most standard answer to something. Again, I didn’t take that bit as deferring to ChatGPT as some kind of authority, but rather as a “even a stupid LLM can immediately come up with the obvious criticism that you can immediately recognise as correct”.