[ExI] ai in education

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
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>...Spike, either I have a complete misunderstanding of LLM-type AI, or you do.

>...There is no source code for any AI that I know about.  There is training code with which an AI is trained on a vast corpus of text, but nothing a programmer would recognize as code. As far as I know, the inside of an AI is a mystery to all the companies.  Keith

Keith I am no expert on it.  But my reasoning is that any computer must have a set of instructions on what to do before it does anything.  I am sure of this: the military will not turn a mystery agent loose with control of any weapons.  They must know exactly how the thing works before they will allow it to control anything.

I think of it as somehow analogous to the autonomous drone target recognition system the Berkeley team is competing in.  There is definite source code there, and it is trained to recognize and distinguish between targets, represented by manikins on the course.  Last year's competition featured a fleeing felon, an injured hiker, a nude sunbather, a lost pet, etc.  The drone had to figure out which is which, and do the right thing: no dropping a fragmentation grenade on the sunbather for instance.  Those things definitely have code.

LLMs must have some kind of source code, or it would do nothing, ja?

spike