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The problem of other minds is real, which is why I specifically separated philosophical debate from the technological one. Even if we met each other in person,
by snuxoll 8mo ago
The problem of other minds is real, which is why I specifically separated philosophical debate from the technological one. Even if we met each other in person, for all I know, I could in fact be the only intelligent being in the universe and everyone else is effectively a bunch of NPCs.
At the end of the day, the underlying architecture of LLMs does not have any capacity for abstract reasoning, they have no goals or intentions of their own, and most importantly their ability to generate something truly new or novel that isn't directly derived from their training data is limited at best. They're glorified next-word predictors, nothing more than that. This is why I said anthropomorphizing them is something only fools would do.
Nobody is going to sit here and try to argue that an earthworm is sapient, at least not without being a deliberate troll. I'd argue, and many would agree, that LLMs lack even that level of sentience.
- cheevly 8mo ago[flagged]
- DauntingPear7 8mo agoYou do too. What makes you think the models are intelligent? Are you seriously that dense? Do you think your phones keyboard autocomplete is intelligent because it can improve by adapting to new words?
- tasuki 8mo agoI think they're intelligent. Sometimes they come up with novel solutions when I present them with a novel problem.
- cheevly 8mo agoFor one, because they can implement large-scale software engineering tasks in seconds, which I believe requires intelligence.
- greggoB 8mo agoHow much of this is executed as a retrieval-and-interpolation task on the vast amount of input data they've encoded? There's a lot of evidence that LLMs tend to come up empty or hilariously wrong when there's a relative sparsity in relevant training data (think <10e4 even) for a given qury. > in seconds I see this as less relevant to a discussiom about intelligence. Calculators are very fast in operating on large numbers.