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> Every time we make advances in AI, what we discover is that humans have less intelligence than we ascribe rather than machines have more. I don't think your
by Nevermark 3y ago
> Every time we make advances in AI, what we discover is that humans have less intelligence than we ascribe rather than machines have more.
I don't think your cynicism is supportable as stated. Humans are as intelligent as they are, and LLM's are not bullshit. They are doing more and more flexible and useful things that were not automatable before, or even predicted to be automated any time soon.
However, I do agree that human thinking is progressively being demonstrated to be amenable to relatively simple algorithms applied to lots of data and parameters.
That was the only likely way things were going to play out. Sooner or later the slow process of demystification started by human's first attempts at introspection was going to give way to something as automated ... as our own neural processes.
- girvo 3y ago> things that were not automatable before Where the automated result now has error bars on it though. Typically when we automated things in the past, that meant getting extremely high success rates. We're accepting lower success rates to automate things that were previously not automatable, by using LLMs. Thats not quite the same thing, even if it does have value!
- daveguy 3y agoIf there's anything we can be sure of, it's that LLMs are bullshit generators that happen to be correct a certain percent of the time. Not just bullshit generators. Plausibly sounding bullshit generators.