It’s evidence of a wider array of knowledge they have not unlocked. Learning more biochemistry has put me on firmer ground when trying to evaluate nutrition facts which was an area where before I was epistemically helpless.
Learning the basics takes less time than you might think and you waste less time listening to idiots (on for example nutrition). Language models are good at biochemistry, but they will imitate a dumb nutritionist rather than a nutritionist who knows biochemistry if you don’t use the right vocabulary.
It’s evidence of a wider array of knowledge they have not unlocked. Learning more biochemistry has put me on firmer ground when trying to evaluate nutrition facts which was an area where before I was epistemically helpless. Learning the basics takes less time than you might think and you waste less time listening to idiots (on for example nutrition). Language models are good at biochemistry, but they will imitate a dumb nutritionist rather than a nutritionist who knows biochemistry if you don’t use the right vocabulary.