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When the ELIZA chatbot came out (1964), some users claimed it was intelligent and sentient. Then, they were shown the diagram that describes its behavior. Even
by 29athrowaway 3y ago
When the ELIZA chatbot came out (1964), some users claimed it was intelligent and sentient.
Then, they were shown the diagram that describes its behavior. Even after that, they kept insisting it was sentient, etc.
Some people just want to believe bullshit.
- hermitcrab 3y agoWhen you interact with an LLM (or Eliza) your brain is doing a lot of heavy lifting, without you even realizing it. I think we tend to infer more intelligence than is there, in the same way we see faces in clouds.
- pixl97 3y agoWatch human behavior long enough and you'll also realize that encoding of social behaviors in our society does a lot of heavy lifting for our brains so we don't have to think. Also, for bonus points define intelligence in a manner that describes simple systems with rudimentary intelligence up to complex systems with higher levels of intelligence than a human. Can you do it, because as of so far no one else has.
- rocqua 3y agoDo you have any links to philosophical attempts at this definition? It feels like it would be a ripe field.
- pixl97 3y agoThere is quite a bit of different information, but when any groups cross reference each others work on differences you end up with lines like this "There is no agreed-upon definition of the concept of intelligence neither in psychology nor in philosophy. Experts’ definitions differ widely." Intelligence itself seems to be a bunch of different behaviors and abilities that when combined have emergent behaviors that are difficult to predict and reduce to simple systems.
- 29athrowaway 3y agoYes. You have made an excellent point. ELIZA replies to almost everything with questions. So ELIZA is constantly prompting you to do the work required to continue the conversation.