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> I hate being the bearish guy No, please keep it up. Someone needs to keep pushing back against all the "I don't understand it, but it says smart-sounding th
by rootusrootus 4y ago
> I hate being the bearish guy
No, please keep it up. Someone needs to keep pushing back against all the "I don't understand it, but it says smart-sounding things, and I don't understand the human brain either, so they're probably the same, it must be sentient!"
It's a pretty handy technology, to be sure. But it's still just a tool.
- danaris 4y agoYeah; there's way too much "humanity of the gaps" here recently. We don't have to fully understand the brain, or fully understand what LLMs are doing, to be able to say that what LLMs are doing is neither that close to what the brain does, nor anything that we would recognize as consciousness or sentience. There is enough that we do understand about those things—and the ways in which they differ—to be able to say with great confidence that we are not particularly close to AGI with this.
- anotherman554 4y ago>"I don't understand it, but it says smart-sounding things, and I don't understand the human brain either, so they're probably the same, it must be sentient!" This perfectly summarize so much of the discourse around GPT. Except people lack the humility to say they don't understand the brain, so instead they type "It works just like your brain," or "Food for thought: can you prove it isn't just like your brain?"