Redis vs Keras Authors Debate: Deep Inference or Mechanical Parroting in LLMs?
antirez · x · 2026-08-03
Redis author antirez continues the debate with Keras author François Chollet regarding the capability boundaries of Large Language Models (LLMs).
antirez clarifies that the skeptics' argument is nuanced: even within the local space represented by the training set, LLMs cannot interpolate based on a deeply inferred representation. Instead, they only interpolate on a shallow, almost-already-seen realm, which aligns with the "parrot model" critique.
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