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Is that what it feels like when the models get smarter than us?
by chpatrick 2mo ago
Is that what it feels like when the models get smarter than us?
- micw 2mo agoGuess that's the exact point of the "intelligence" benchmarks
- gpt5 2mo agoA smarter model would know how to communicate with you correctly, and not just throw jargon it has just invented at you without explaining it.
- IanCal 2mo agos/model/engineer
- chpatrick 2mo agoBut if you have two experts in a field talking to each other you wouldn't expect them to dumb down their communication.
- riknos314 2mo agoEffective jargon usage is understood by the target audience. If the AI is communicating to me and can't select the appropriate jargon level, it's failing at communicating effectively.
- chpatrick 2mo agoOr you're below its level.
- fuck_google 2mo ago[dead]
- ranguna 2mo agoThat's a loadbearing, heavy shaped, second take worthy statement
- riknos314 2mo agoAs long as the linguistics are the issue rather than raw inability to understand the concepts being communicated, then the model is just being a bad communicator.
- cloverich 2mo agoConcise, jargon free or limited explanation is the opposite of dumbed down. It requires to most skill and understanding to do well. Opus 4.8/5, for whatever reason, are getting worse at this crucial skill.
- HappyPanacea 2mo agoNo, a smart model should also give a concise executive summary, "brevity is the soul of wit".
- a2ff6eeb0 2mo agoSo, in short, once models get smart enough they stop bothering telling us what they did. Yeah, makes sense. A parent wouldn't bother explaining the details of their job to a toddler.
- FridgeSeal 2mo agoWhich would be fine, but the parents also just smeared tomato sauce over the walls too, so let’s not get too ahead of ourselves.
- computably 2mo ago"There is a view in some philosophical circles that anything that can be understood by people who have not studied philosophy is not profound enough to be worth saying. To the contrary, I suspect that whatever cannot be said clearly is probably not being thought clearly either."
- msp26 2mo agoNo the models are just ass at communication without being directed. Try asking them to make useful diagrams for some stuff in a codebase, out of the box without excessive hand holding they don't make good choices about what's worth communicating and how to do it. You see this in their pointless frontend copy all the time too.
- embedding-shape 2mo agoLike any time you make them do any UI without strict directions they'll almost always add a label describing the feature somewhere. Ask for a calculator, and instructions for what the different buttons do might appear in the bottom out of nowhere for example. Same concept of "over-sharing" seems to prevalent in a bunch of domains when it comes to LLMs, sometimes more visible, sometimes less.
- cindyllm 2mo ago[dead]