{"id":300,"date":"2025-03-31T05:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T05:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/horseless-intelligence-ned-batchelder\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T05:43:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T05:43:48","slug":"horseless-intelligence-ned-batchelder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/horseless-intelligence-ned-batchelder\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseless intelligence | Ned Batchelder"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m not sure we have a consensus understanding of what \u201cthink\u201d means in this context. Airplanes don\u2019t fly in the same way that birds do. Automobiles don\u2019t run in the same way that horses do. The important thing is that they accomplish many of the same tasks.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so AI doesn\u2019t think the same way that people do. I\u2019m fine with that. What\u2019s important to me is that it can do some work for me, work that could also be done by people thinking. Cars (\u201chorseless carriages\u201d) do work that used to be done by horses running. No one now complains that cars work differently than horses.<\/p>\n<p>If \u201cjust predict the next word\u201d is an accurate description of what LLMs are doing, it\u2019s a demonstration of how surprisingly powerful predicting the next word can be.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/nedbatchelder.com\/blog\/202503\/horseless_intelligence.html\">nedbatchelder.com\/blog\/202503\/horseless_intelligence.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure we have a consensus understanding of what \u201cthink\u201d means in this context. Airplanes don\u2019t fly in the same way that birds do. Automobiles don\u2019t run in the same way that horses do. The important thing is that they accomplish many of the same tasks. OK, so AI doesn\u2019t think the same way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}