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I've come to understand that while an LLM is a parrot, it's a parrot that's smarter than I am.
by jdw64 3mo ago
I've come to understand that while an LLM is a parrot, it's a parrot that's smarter than I am.
- sobellian 3mo agoIf you have to be a parrot of another man's thoughts, at least let that man be a synthesis of all human endeavor to date.
- userbinator 3mo ago"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." -Isaac Newton
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- thinking_cactus 3mo agoSmarter in some ways at least. Probably still not quite as smart at understanding human emotions (and things that aren't well enough catalogued on the internet or amenable to Reinforcement Learning on virtual environments).
- neuroticnews25 3mo agoProbably not as smart as highest EQ humans but smarter than me, I use LLMs to help pin down what emotion I'm feeling.
- kolinko 3mo agoSame here
- meowface 3mo agoHot take: even GPT-3 was not a parrot. Skeptics have never properly internalized that the fundamental operation is basically irrelevant to the gestalt. Humans are not parrots yet neurons likely also largely operate via predictive processing.
- farfatched 3mo agoI agree, and was influenced by this, which discusses it more: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/next-token-predictor-is-an-ais-job https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/next-token-predictor-is-an-...
- farfatched 3mo agoPerhaps we are all parrots.
- TMWNN 3mo agoAt least you recognize this. The average Redditor is not capable of such self-examination. Highly relevant comment <https://np.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1jh9c90/why_do_people_often_make_blanket_claims_about_ai/mj5f3c7/?context=3 https://np.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1jh9c90/why_do_...>: >Imagine you had a frozen [large language] model that is a 1:1 copy of the average person, let’s say, an average Redditor. Literally nobody would use that model because it can’t do anything. It can’t code, can’t do math, isn’t particularly creative at writing stories. It generalizes when it’s wrong and has biases that not even fine-tuning with facts can eliminate. And it hallucinates like crazy often stating opinions as facts, or thinking it is correct when it isn't. >The only things it can do are basic tasks nobody needs a model for, because everyone can already do them. If you are lucky you get one that is pretty good in a singular narrow task. But that's the best it can get. >and somehow this model won't shut up and tell everyone how smart and special it is also it claims consciousness. ridiculous.