Re: Word choice "recognizing" (Was: Re: LaTeX for prompting AI?)

Greetings.

On 2025-07-13 00:09, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
>    Do you find that normally a face is said to be recognized when the
> system provides a name, classified when it provides a species, detected
> when it provides an assertion of presence?

I'm not sure I follow you.

>    I wonder if "recognize" is properly applied to LLM prediction of a
> statement that asserts a specific member of a class rather than for just
> any useful prediction or for prediction of any classifying statement in
> general?

Again, I'm not sure what you're getting at.  What do you mean by 
"prediction" here?  Does this just refer to the output of an LLM?

>    That continues to raise some interesting questions. If you ask "is
> [code] latex?" and the system responds "yes", did it even get as far as
> 'classifying' the code as latex? Did the system merely admit it to a
> "similar-to-latex" set rather than discriminating the code from other
> things from which you would expect it to be discriminated when it is
> classified?

Does it matter, and is this any different to how a human would answer 
the same question?

Regards,
Tristan

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