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> I still don't understand the purported difference between "sounds smart" and "is smart". Sounds smart: pasting words together with little to no sense about w
by tablespoon 4y ago
> I still don't understand the purported difference between "sounds smart" and "is smart".
Sounds smart: pasting words together with little to no sense about whether the result is insensible or incorrect.
Smart: Actually having ideas, expressing them, and being able recognize errors with that process.
- allturtles 4y agoBut the question remains how you tell the difference from the outside. How will we know when an AI model has ideas? How do you know your doctor has ideas?
- tablespoon 4y ago> But the question remains how you tell the difference from the outside. How will we know when an AI model has ideas? How do you know your doctor has ideas? That's a problem for the future, not now. We're talking about something like ChatGPT, not some hypothetical strong AGI. And what we have now spits out error-ridden nonsense that "sounds smart," and fantastic sci-fi covers were the people accidentally have 14 fingers or two legs and three feet.