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  • Lack of exposure would be my guess. People can pick up languages with adult brains too. English is my third language, but I use it every day to a degree that I find it hard not to think in english. Learned german for ten years, but as soon as I stopped using it english overtook it. Now I struggle to string a proper sentence together.











  • Stochastic parrots always bullshit. It can’t lie as it has no concept or care for truth and falsity, but spitting back noise that’s statistically shaped like a signal.

    In practice, I noticed the answer is more likely wrong the more specific the question. General questions that have the answer widely available in the training data will more often be there correctly in the LLMs result.






  • There are many ethnicities in India and China. Your equivalence breaks down, because then both an uyghur, tibetian and han chinese would be the same.

    I get it, if we are talking about outsider’s perspective, I for example can’t tell apart a typical chinese from a typical korean or japanese person. Due to the lack of exposure, my brain only registers them as “asian person”. Maybe the language can give a clue, but that’s debateable.

    Still, the broader the brushes we paint with, the more erroneous generalization are.