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> There is no intelligence here, other than the perceived intelligence of predicting words intelligent people have written previously. I think this is my main
by awongh 2y ago
> There is no intelligence here, other than the perceived intelligence of predicting words intelligent people have written previously.
I think this is my main point- isn't it amazing that a thing that predicts words other humans have previously written manages to appear intelligent, or, more pointedly, have utility in communicating real thoughts and ideas?
If you've ever asked an LLM a question and gotten a satisfying answer, that means that there is some human-level intelligence somewhere in the token filtering / recombinating that an LLM does.
Specifically I think the test of human-like intelligence is literally the output- If we get utility from the arrangements of the tokens it outputs, that in and of itself demonstrates that some portion of human intelligence could be this same token generation mechanic.
- ngneer 2y agoNo. Just means we are easy to fool. Like apes who see themselves in the mirror and fail to recognize they are seeing themselves in the mirror, thinking it is a different ape (and trying to mate with or attack it).
- awongh 2y agoThe invention of the mirror by humans probably provided an interesting insight into our own existence... I wonder what it would have been like to see your own reflection for the first time as a technology. How would that change your outlook on your self-hood and identity?
- ngneer 2y agoGreat question to ponder. Surely people would have seen their own reflections in water, but the mirror itself would have made "Reflection Technology" for "Artificial Introspection" more scalable. I suspect the mirror offered modern people a new viewpoint, allowing one to see how one is perceived by others. I do not think selfhood and identity would have been affected. My main question is about when people came to behave differently than apes. Douglas Hofstadter's "The Mind's I" may have a few hints on perception of self for you.