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You and I are just autocomplete machines.
by danielmarkbruce 2y ago
You and I are just autocomplete machines.
- ionwake 2y agoI’m surprised ur the first comment I e seen where a human admits humans aren’t that complex in the big scheme of things
- gls2ro 2y agoNothing is complex or important in the big scheme of things, for example when setting the point of reference being the Universe. But on Earth, humans are pretty complex living organisms that we tag with the term intelligence. And I would say this is the point of reference for the discussion about AI. I do agree that we are not special and in an alternate Universe maybe a branch of Neanderthals would try to invent some new form of tech.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoIf you happened to teach a kid to read right after LLMs got good, it jolts you into thinking that humans are very similar to LLMs. They continually say word X when the page shows word Y, but where word X would make perfect sense, ie semantically similar words are being spat out. They also make up stories where the words sort of make sense, but it's kinda nonsense. "Hallucinations" all over the place.
- consteval 2y agoI disagree, because this comment doesn't feel right to me and therefore it isn't right. That alone disproves this stance. This higher podium for the human race and even the ability to feel means we are more than just autocomplete machines. We have allegiance, irrationality, animalistic instinct.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoIt was tongue in cheek. But seriously, I could push back and say: all you did is put one idea after another there. If you spend time observing your thought, an enormous amount of it is just putting one idea after another.
- consteval 2y agoThis implies my thoughts are even observable. I don't know that they are. I mean, my brain is doing the thinking and it's also doing the observing. If it wanted to, it could keep things from me.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoYup, all fair points. Like I said, the comment was mostly tongue in cheek.