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To get into this analogy: this doesn't mean cars are worthless; it just means they're a poor approximation of a horse. Maybe you don't want to approximate a hor
by bloppe 3y ago
To get into this analogy: this doesn't mean cars are worthless; it just means they're a poor approximation of a horse. Maybe you don't want to approximate a horse. But, if you do want to approximate a horse, don't try to do it with a car.
Similarly, if you want to approximate a human, an LLM may be the best we can do right now, but it's hardly a good approximation.
- verytrivial 3y agoWell the analogy was more at the introduction of the automobile the people who were familiar with horses were able to point out all the ways that horses were better than cars by some measure. Cars ended up being used in entirely different and arguably more powerful ways. You didn't even need to contradict the people who held the horses in higher reguard. Horses just became irrelevant. It's an incremental value proposition. AI will keep hitting various plateaus, but it's already pretty fucking amazing. It's not going to get worse. And pointing out specifically how it differs from the human mind to me honestly feels like clinging to the wreckage.