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Humans are pretty good at faking intelligence too! It's only when you question them carefully and you yourself are an expert in the field that you can detect th
by exe34 3y ago
Humans are pretty good at faking intelligence too! It's only when you question them carefully and you yourself are an expert in the field that you can detect that they're confabulating.
Conversely, I've never seen anybody produce anything but the next word coming out of their mouth. Therefore people are glorified stochastic parrots.
- nradov 3y agoYou're conflating knowledge of specific subject areas with generalized intelligence, including the ability to learn and metacognition.
- exe34 3y agoWhat do you mean by learning and metacognition? An LLM can tell you whether or not something is in their context window. Humans regularly come up with "innovative" things that they actually saw from somewhere else and just happen to forget the source. Intelligence is like magic - every time a machine can do one thing on the list, it stops being intelligence, it's just engineering. Maybe intelligence really is just a big bag of tricks?