Maybe? Who knows?
Since nobody has any remotely reliable way to understand why an LLM output the text it did, this is not knowable.
Maybe? Who knows?
Since nobody has any remotely reliable way to understand why an LLM output the text it did, this is not knowable.
> this is not knowable
It may be knowable. We don’t know.
In principle, yes, it may be possible.
At present, we have no idea how to do that, so the answer is still "this is not knowable" in practice.
Perhaps that changes tomorrow, or in a month, or a year from now, but until a theoretically-sound technique for understanding what the weights signify is described and demonstrated to be reliable, my statement remains true.
> so the answer is still "this is not knowable" in practice
No, it’s not. It is unknown. To say it may be unknowable you need a fundamental reason why it may not be knowable.
What lies behind event horizons may be unknowable. We have theoretical reasons to suspect this. What LLMs are doing isn’t well enough understood, theoretically, to even say what is knowable versus unknowable. Just what is known and not.
A method not existing and a method being impossible (or unlikely) to exist are separate concepts. When you say something is unknowable, it should mean it literally cannot be known—route around the question entirely.
Rumsfeld matrix
Separate concept. Whether something is knowable is separate from whether it is known.
Whether God exists is scientifically unknowable. The shape of a black-hole singularity is currently not known.
No, it's the same - because an LLM is not a God. It is not an unknowable. There are very few unknowables.
> it's the same
No, it’s not. Rumsfeld segregated what we know from what we know we know (and vice versa). An unknown (whether known or unknown) may be knowable or unknowable—his framework doesn’t address knowability.
> because an LLM is not a God. It is not an unknowable
I tend to agree with you. This has nothing to do with the Rumsfeld comparison being wrong.
There are like ten sibling replies with a lot of speculation but I'm pretty sure this is the correct answer. I tend to agree with the other commenter we might know someday but we don't know now.