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No major company directly states "We have created human-like intelligence," they intentionally use suggestive language that leads people to think AI is approach

by gloosx 2y ago

No major company directly states "We have created human-like intelligence," they intentionally use suggestive language that leads people to think AI is approaching human cognition. This helps with hype, investment, and PR. >I'd love to see if some company specifically anything like that? 1. DeepMind researchers: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 2. "GPT-4 is not AGI, but it does exhibit more general intelligence than previous models." - Sam Altman 3. Musk has claimed that AI is on the path to "understanding the universe." His branding of Tesla's self-driving AI as "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) also misleadingly suggests a level of autonomous reasoning that doesn't exist. 4. Meta's AI chief scientist, Yann LeCun, has repeatedly said they are working on giving AI "common sense" and "world models" similar to how humans think. >Out of the last 100 years how many inventions have been made that could make any human awe like llms do right now? ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed from 1964 to 1967 ELIZA's creator, Weizenbaum, intended the program as a method to explore communication between humans and machines. He was surprised and shocked that some people, including Weizenbaum's secretary, attributed human-like feelings to the computer program. 60 years ago. So as you can see, us humans are not too hard to fool with this.

lnenad 2y ago
> they intentionally use suggestive language that leads people to think AI is approaching human cognition. This helps with hype, investment, and PR. As do all companies in the world. If you want to buy a hammer, the company will sell it as the best hammer in the world. It's the norm. I don't know exactly what your point is with ELIZA? > So as you can see, us humans are not too hard to fool with this. I mean ok? How is that related to having a 30 minute conversation with ChatGPT where it teaches you a language? Or Claude outputting an entire application in a single go? Or having them guide you through fixing your fridge by uploading the instructions? Or using NotebookLM to help you digest a scientific paper?
- gloosx 2y ago
  Im not saying LLMs are not impressive or useful — Im pointing out that corporations behind commercial AI models are capitalising on our emotional response to natural language prediction. This phenomenon isnt new – Weizenbaum observed it 60 years ago, even with the simplest of algorithms like ELIZA. Your example actually highlights this well. AI excels at language, so it’s naturally strong in teaching (especially for language learning ;)). But coding is different. It’s not just about syntax; it requires problem-solving, debugging, and system design — areas where AI struggles because it lacks true reasoning. There’s no denying that when AI helps you achieve or learn something new, it’s a fascinating moment — proof that we’re living in 2025, not 1967. But the more commercialised it gets, the more mythical and misleading the narrative becomes
  - lnenad 2y ago
    You originally said > They push the narrative that they’ve created something akin to human cognition I am saying they're not doing that, they're doing sales and marketing and it's you that interprets this as possible/true. In my analogy if the company said it's a hammer that can do anything, you wouldn't use it to debug elixir. You understand what hammers are for and you realize the scope is different. Same here. It's a tool that has its uses and limits. > Your example actually highlights this well. AI excels at language, so it’s naturally strong in teaching (especially for language learning ;)). But coding is different. It’s not just about syntax; it requires problem-solving, debugging, and system design — areas where AI struggles because it lacks true reasoning. I disagree since I use it daily and Claude is really good at coding. It's saving me a lot of time. It's not gonna build a new Waymo but I don't expect it to. But this is besides the point. In the original tweet what Sabine is implying is that it's useless and OpenAI should be worth less than a shoe factory. When in fact this is a very poor approach to look at LLMs and their value and both sides of the spectrum are problematic (those that say it's a catch all AGI and those that say hurr it couldn't solve P versus NP it's trash).
    - MindBeams 2y ago
      >they're doing sales and marketing and it's you that interprets this as possible/true. You've moved the goalpost from "they're not saying it" to "they're saying, but you're not supposed to believe it."
jibal 2y ago
ELIZA was not a natural language processor, and the fact that some people were easily fooled by a program that produced canned responses based on keywords in the text but was presented as a psychotherapist is not relevant to the issue here--it's a fallacy of affirmation of the consequent. Also, "4. Meta's AI chief scientist, Yann LeCun, has repeatedly said they are working on giving AI "common sense" and "world models" similar to how humans think." completely misses the mark. That LLMs don't do this is a criticism from old-school AI researchers like Gary Marcus; LeCun is saying that they are addressing the criticism by developing the sorts of technology that Marcus says are necessary.
EnthrallingEmil 2y ago
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by gloosx 2y ago

lnenad 2y ago

> they intentionally use suggestive language that leads people to think AI is approaching human cognition. This helps with hype, investment, and PR. As do all companies in the world. If you want to buy a hammer, the company will sell it as the best hammer in the world. It's the norm. I don't know exactly what your point is with ELIZA? > So as you can see, us humans are not too hard to fool with this. I mean ok? How is that related to having a 30 minute conversation with ChatGPT where it teaches you a language? Or Claude outputting an entire application in a single go? Or having them guide you through fixing your fridge by uploading the instructions? Or using NotebookLM to help you digest a scientific paper?

gloosx 2y ago
Im not saying LLMs are not impressive or useful — Im pointing out that corporations behind commercial AI models are capitalising on our emotional response to natural language prediction. This phenomenon isnt new – Weizenbaum observed it 60 years ago, even with the simplest of algorithms like ELIZA. Your example actually highlights this well. AI excels at language, so it’s naturally strong in teaching (especially for language learning ;)). But coding is different. It’s not just about syntax; it requires problem-solving, debugging, and system design — areas where AI struggles because it lacks true reasoning. There’s no denying that when AI helps you achieve or learn something new, it’s a fascinating moment — proof that we’re living in 2025, not 1967. But the more commercialised it gets, the more mythical and misleading the narrative becomes
- lnenad 2y ago
  You originally said > They push the narrative that they’ve created something akin to human cognition I am saying they're not doing that, they're doing sales and marketing and it's you that interprets this as possible/true. In my analogy if the company said it's a hammer that can do anything, you wouldn't use it to debug elixir. You understand what hammers are for and you realize the scope is different. Same here. It's a tool that has its uses and limits. > Your example actually highlights this well. AI excels at language, so it’s naturally strong in teaching (especially for language learning ;)). But coding is different. It’s not just about syntax; it requires problem-solving, debugging, and system design — areas where AI struggles because it lacks true reasoning. I disagree since I use it daily and Claude is really good at coding. It's saving me a lot of time. It's not gonna build a new Waymo but I don't expect it to. But this is besides the point. In the original tweet what Sabine is implying is that it's useless and OpenAI should be worth less than a shoe factory. When in fact this is a very poor approach to look at LLMs and their value and both sides of the spectrum are problematic (those that say it's a catch all AGI and those that say hurr it couldn't solve P versus NP it's trash).
  - MindBeams 2y ago
    >they're doing sales and marketing and it's you that interprets this as possible/true. You've moved the goalpost from "they're not saying it" to "they're saying, but you're not supposed to believe it."

jibal 2y ago

ELIZA was not a natural language processor, and the fact that some people were easily fooled by a program that produced canned responses based on keywords in the text but was presented as a psychotherapist is not relevant to the issue here--it's a fallacy of affirmation of the consequent. Also, "4. Meta's AI chief scientist, Yann LeCun, has repeatedly said they are working on giving AI "common sense" and "world models" similar to how humans think." completely misses the mark. That LLMs don't do this is a criticism from old-school AI researchers like Gary Marcus; LeCun is saying that they are addressing the criticism by developing the sorts of technology that Marcus says are necessary.

EnthrallingEmil 2y ago

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